What about people who never hear about Jesus?

People often ask me – what happens to people who never hear about Jesus? Do they just go straight to hell? Is there any hope for them? I think it’s an interesting question and I like it best when it is rooted in compassion for other people and a sense that God will do the “right thing.”...
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Why Lay on Hands and Anoint with Oil?

Laying hands on the sick was a common practice in the Early Church. Jesus often laid hands on people before healing them Mark 6:5; Luke 4:40; 13:13. Paul laid hands on a sick person and he was healed Acts 28:8. Jesus said concerning His followers, “they will place their hands on sick people,...
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Baptism

In water baptism, the believer is briefly submerged under and then raised out of water as an outward sign and public declaration of an inward spiritual reality. Namely, that they share in the death, resurrection, and new life of the Lord Jesus Christ (Rom. 6:4; Col. 2:12). Submersion is not...
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Fasting

Okay, you are not the first person to wonder why giving up something good (like food) could possibly improve your faith or your relationship with God. Fasting strikes some as an old fashioned idea for religious fanatics. This simple guide hopes to dispel that idea and provide a biblically solid...
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A Biblical Understanding of Being Human

Beginning with Adam and Eve as the best human example, we can form an impressively comprehensive, usable and formidable anthropology.

First, we know that humans are the apex of God’s creation (Gen. 1:26-27). Humans are only thing said to be made “in his image.” That simple declaration...
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Child Dedication

While there is no Biblical mandate to dedicate Christian children there are several good reasons to dedicate them to God.

Notice: This answer assumes that the parent desires to dedicate their child to God. Otherwise, there is absolutely no reason to enforce child dedication.

1. It follows the...
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