Bible Study 9/11: September 11th First Responders
New Beginnings Community Worship Center honors the first responders of the September 11th attacks. Your bravery and humanity inspires us all.
Bible Study 9/4: What is the New Covenant?
The New Covenant (or New Testament) is the promise that God makes with humanity that He will forgive sin and restore fellowship with those whose hearts are turned toward Him. Jesus Christ is the mediator of the New Covenant, and His death on the cross is the basis of the...
Bible Study 8/28: What does it mean to seek first the kingdom of God?
Answer: Jesus said to seek first the kingdom of God in His Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6:33). The verse’s meaning is as direct as it sounds. We are to seek the things of God as a priority over the things of the world. Primarily, it means we are to seek the salvation...
Bible Study 8/14: What is the pride of life?
Answer: The phrase “pride of life” is found only once in the Bible, in 1 John 2:16, but the concept of the pride of life, especially as it is linked with the “lust of the eyes” and the “lust of the flesh,” appears in two more significant passages of Scripture—the temptation of...
Bible Study 8/7: Does the Bible prophesy a one-world government and a one-world currency in the end times?
Answer: The Bible does not use the phrase “one-world government” or “one-world currency” in referring to the end times. It does, however, provide ample evidence to enable us to draw the conclusion that both will exist under the rule of the Antichrist in the last days. In his apocalyptic vision in...
Bible Study 7/31: What does it mean to be an ambassador for Christ?
Answer: In a letter to the Corinthians, the apostle Paul discusses the ministry of reconciliation, and he uses the term “ambassadors” for Christ: “All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in...
Bible Study 7/3: What was the story of Jacob and Esau?
Answer: Jacob and Esau were the sons of Isaac and Rebekah and the first twins mentioned in the Bible. Even before they were born, they were struggling together in the womb of their mother. Their prenatal striving foreshadowed later conflict (Genesis 25:21-26). The twins grew up very different. Jacob was “a quiet man, staying...
Bible Study 6/26: What does the Bible say about pride?
Answer: There is a difference between the kind of pride that God hates (Proverbs 8:13) and the kind of pride we can feel about a job well done (Galatians 6:4) or the kind of pride we express over the accomplishment of loved ones (2 Corinthians 7:4). The kind of pride that...
Bible Study 6/19: Make Full Proof
N.B.C.W.C. SCRIPTURAL STUDY – 06-19-19 2 Timothy 4 (NKJV) Preach the Word! 4 I charge you [a]therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead [b]at His appearing and His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season....
Bible Study 6/12: What is the effectual calling/call?
Answer: The term effectual call, as related to salvation, comes from Chapter X of the 1647 Westminster Confession of Faith. The effectual call is understood as God’s sovereign drawing of a sinner to salvation. The effectual call to a sinner so overwhelms his natural inclination to rebel that he willingly places faith in...