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How do I respond when my children claim to be atheists/agnostics?

Question of the Week: How do I respond when my children claim to be atheists/agnostics?
Verses: John 16:7-14, Romans 2:4

The first and most important thing to remember when sharing the gospel with anyone is that we don’t save anyone. The Holy Spirit’s job is to convict hearts and minds of their need for a Savior. We can at times play a part in that process, but the ultimate decision is between them and God. The hardest thing to do in a love relationship is respect someone’s choices when you know they are the wrong ones. God is willing to respect those decisions. You have the opportunity to share God’s heart when you share with your children. You can share His joy if they accept it, or His heartache when they reject it. However, what we need most from God in those times in His patience and grace as we simply and consistently love them. He is more interested in seeing our children go to Heaven than we’ll ever be. The key to evangelism is simply being available to be used by the Holy Spirit. Without Him we have no hope of showing God’s heart, let alone seeing a soul saved.

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A Reason for Hope Question of the Week, November 30th, 2018

Question of the Week: Is it wrong for Christians to celebrate holidays not mentioned in the Bible?
Verses: Acts 20:7, Romans 14:5-12

No. The celebration of holidays is only controversial if your motives and methods in celebrating it directly conflict with your relationship with God. There are plenty of people who approach holidays like Halloween and Christmas in very non-Christian ways, but that remains between them and God. Just because other people do things on certain days doesn’t mean that is what you are doing. How and why we celebrate anything is between us and God. And so long as you aren’t modeling the motives and methods non-Christians approach these holidays with, (glorifying evil, fornication, drunkenness, etc.), then it’s not sinful. If your conscience still doesn’t want to be apart of these things, you aren’t sinning either. Simply make sure that whatever you’re doing, you’re doing it to focus on and glorify God.

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A Reason for Hope Question of the Week, November 23rd, 2018

Question of the Week: What do Christians have to be thankful for?
Verses: Psalm 103:2-5, 1 Thessalonians 5:18

Thankfulness is simply to recognize something done for you or given to you as good. A person who refuses to acknowledge anything good in their lives is therefore ungrateful. A Christian, regardless of where they find themselves in life, have a large number of good things that have been given to them that they only need to recognize in order to adopt the attitude God wants us to have. First, we aren’t going to Hell. Jesus’ work on the cross isn’t something that we benefit from some days over others. The greatest possible gift God could give us, mercy and forgiveness from the sins we’ve committed against Him, is our ongoing reality. While our present situations may not always be positive, the Bible emphasizes that “in” everything we are to give thanks. How? By recognizing wherever we are, God has still been good to us. The person who recognizes that can then go on to remember how God has healed us, supported us, comforted us, and even intervened directly in our lives before. Start with remembering salvation, and an attitude of gratitude will follow.

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Where did Jesus literally say the words, “I am God?”

Question of the Week: Where did Jesus literally say the words, “I am God?”
Verses: John 8:58, Exodus 3:13-15,

Asking for exact words in any argument is absurd. Firstly, Jesus didn’t speak English. He spoke Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew. Secondly, He wasn’t a 21st century American. He was a 1st Century Jew living in Roman occupied Judea. If He had said the words, “I am God” as we do today, it would have been confused as comparing himself to a local figure of authority or one of the many generic pagan gods. That’s why when Jesus made claims to deity, He did so through actions as much as through the implications of His claims. If Jesus said the sort of things about Himself that only the True and Living God of Israel specifically could say and not be lying/insane, then He was claiming to be God. None were so significant and well understood by His audience than claiming the same name for Himself that the God of Israel introduced Himself to Moses as. The I Am. Jesus made this claim multiple times to hostile and friendly audiences as the greatest affirmations of His deity. For more examples, please watch the video below.

A Reason for Hope Question of the Week, November 7th, 2018

Question of the Week: If people are made in the image of God, what are angels made in the image of?
Verses: Genesis 1:26-27, Daniel 10:10-14, Revelation 1:12-18

Human beings reflect the image of God personally; He is a moral, emotional, and relational being. So likewise we reflect His personal nature in a way that is absolutely unique to us.
Angelic beings reflect the glory of God. How His majesty is described is also seen to a lesser degree in the angels. When Gabriel appeared to Daniel, he very much resembled the way Jesus was described to John when He was glorified. How do we know the difference? They both clarified who they were. John was given the explanation that who He was talking to was none other than the Lord Himself. When Daniel saw a similar figure, the individual clarified who he was and that he was an angel who needed help from Michael after a demonic entity kept him from getting the message he was sent to deliver to him. Obviously Jesus isn’t going to have trouble with demons, so why are their descriptions so similar? The angels reflect God’s glory just like we reflect His personality.

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