Church Of The Lost Sheep

" For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God." Hebrews 11:10 in the Berean Study Bible Version [This is the  7th lesson of  this series ] Christians are always being criticized for their faith. This is as if non believers do not have faith on someone or something else, they do. But they find it more convenient to attack Christians for their faith rather than to confront why and how they can continue on theirs. A Christian's faith, by their very label, is (and should be) based on Christ, His finished work. Nothing else. The cross may be the symbol they use, just because most people wants something tangible to hold on to. But Christianity is all about Christ. Everything else should be built on Him alone. Apostle Paul wrote: If our hope in Christ is for this life alone, we are to be pitied more than all men. There is more to life and living it than meets the eye.  And indeed, if Christ didn't do what He had done, fin

Abram Obeys the Calling Then  Adonai  said to Abram, “Get going out from your land, and from your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land that I will show you. My heart’s desire is to make you into a great nation, to bless you, to make your name great so that you may be a blessing. My desire is to bless those who bless you, but whoever curses you I will curse and in you all the families of the earth will be blessed. So Abram went, just as  Adonai  had spoken to him. Also Lot went with him. (Now Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Haran.) From the Book of Beginnings. [This is the 12th message of this series ] Prologue In the Jewish holy book, before Abraham was known as Abraham, he went by the name Abram. After he listened and obeyed the call of God, God changed his name to Abraham and eventually he became the father of three faiths -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Muslims through their Islamic holy book, contends that God made a covenant with their pe

Jesus, undeterred, went right ahead and gave his charge: “God authorized and commanded me to commission you: Go out and train everyone you meet, far and near, in this way of life, marking them by baptism in the threefold name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Then instruct them in the practice of all I have commanded you. I’ll be with you as you do this, day after day after day, right up to the end of the age.” -Jesus of Nazareth written by Matthew, 1st century This is the 8th message of this series ] In the preceding messages, we've learned about how the first followers of Jesus finally believed Him and also how succeeding believers after them were able to do the same. Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow and this is why Christianity is still here after 2,000 years, and even after all the persecution and attempts to silence it. [Gamaliel had the right idea when he said something like if this is from human origin then it will die a natural death, like all the