Tonight we're going to talk about aspiring to spiritual greatness. As I was thinking about this, the first thing that struck me was how many halls of fame there are. There are so many! There's the Football Hall of Fame, the Baseball Hall of Fame, and even a Firefighters Hall of Fame. No offense to firefighters—that's fine. I even noticed that the Firefighters Hall of Fame in Phoenix is...

This addresses how an individual can benefit from Jesus' work. Answer: Salvation (forgiveness of sins and eternal life) comes through faith in Jesus Christ.   Biblical Explanation: Faith and Grace: Jesus' apostles consistently taught: "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one...

The word of God has the power to reveal to us certain things that we could not know in any other way. For example: How and when the world was created. The reason man is the way he is - sin. The true nature of God. What happens to us after we die. Human beings could study and speculate on these things for a thousand years and come up with many theories, but that's all they'd be, just theories...

Answer: This is one of the deepest questions. The Bible suggests that suffering entered the world through the "Fall" (Adam and Eve's disobedience, Genesis 3), introducing sin and corruption into God's perfect creation. God allows humans to have genuine free will, which means they can choose good or evil, and their choices have real, painful consequences. Explanation: While God did not...