Copyright https://www.christianity.com 2025, Christianity.com Wed, 16 Apr 2025 08:07:17 -0400 https://www.christianity.com/wiki/marriage/is-remarriage-after-divorce-a-sin.html https://www.christianity.com/wiki/marriage/is-remarriage-after-divorce-a-sin.html Dana Che Williams https://www.christianity.com/author/dana-che-williams/ Remarriage after divorce depends on the heart, the circumstances, and a willingness to honor God moving forward. Sun, 06 Apr 2025 11:30:00 -0400 2025-04-16T08:07:17-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/wiki/bible/why-well-done-good-and-faithful-doesnt-mean-perfect.html https://www.christianity.com/wiki/bible/why-well-done-good-and-faithful-doesnt-mean-perfect.html Robert Hampshire https://www.christianity.com/author/robert-hampshire/ Ever feel like your hard work isn’t paying off? This powerful reflection flips the script on success, reminding us that God isn’t asking for results—He’s asking for faithfulness. Whether you’re leading a team, a family, or just trying to stay afloat, this message will encourage you to keep showing up and trust God with the rest. Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:00:00 -0400 2025-04-16T08:07:17-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/wiki/salvation/what-does-it-really-mean-to-be-a-christian.html https://www.christianity.com/wiki/salvation/what-does-it-really-mean-to-be-a-christian.html Dr. Michael Youssef https://www.christianity.com/author/dr-michael-youssef/ Have you ever wondered what it really means to become a Christian? Maybe you feel like it’s too late for you, or that you’ve made too many mistakes—but the truth is, salvation is simpler than you think. Discover the life-changing power of faith, the first step toward Jesus, and how one simple prayer can transform your eternity. Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:00:00 -0500 2025-04-16T08:07:17-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/how-to-align-your-life-with-gods-promises.html https://www.christianity.com/wiki/jesus-christ/how-to-align-your-life-with-gods-promises.html Jennifer Slattery https://www.christianity.com/author/jennifer-slattery/ Do you ever feel like the joy and peace Jesus promised don’t match your reality? Maybe life’s struggles have left you questioning whether His words truly apply to you. This Lenten season, let’s dive deep into what Jesus meant when He spoke of abundant life—and discover practical steps to experience His promises in the midst of our everyday challenges. Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:30:00 -0500 2025-04-16T08:07:17-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/church/6-things-to-consider-when-church-no-longer-feels-like-home.html https://www.christianity.com/church/6-things-to-consider-when-church-no-longer-feels-like-home.html Tamra Andress https://www.christianity.com/author/tamra-andress/ Finding the right church home is a deeply personal and spiritual journey. Tamra highlights six key reasons why it might be time to consider “church shopping,” including the need for deeper spiritual maturity, a stronger discipleship focus, and a sense of authentic community. If you’re feeling spiritually stagnant, disconnected, or unsure about your church’s direction, it may be time to prayerfully explore where God is leading you next. With His guidance, you can find a church that aligns with your growth and helps you live out your faith boldly. Fri, 24 Jan 2025 16:15:00 -0500 2025-04-16T08:07:17-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/videos/video-answers/why-does-the-bible-call-christians-saints-.html https://www.christianity.com/videos/video-answers/why-does-the-bible-call-christians-saints-.html Robert Greene https://www.christianity.com/author/robert-greene/ Who are "Saints" in the Bible?I think it's important for us when we talk about the gospel to realize that the gospel as good news, isn't just information and Paul said it is the power of God to transform us. And so the gospel isn't just information or words. It's actually the power of God that transforms us, to bring us from a state of spiritual deadness to a place of spiritual life. And that gospel has implications. It transforms the way that we understand who we are and how we relate to ourselves, how we relate to other people. How do we relate to God?And so when we begin to look at the different ways that the scriptures describe the life of a believer, that they describe the identity of a believer that comes through the gospel. It begins to paint a picture of how we're to understand ourselves. And it's important to see how scripture does that. And so sometimes we talk a lot about the fact that the gospel makes us saints, that we can all recognize as men and women being created in the image of God, but living life in a fallen world, that we all suffer the effects of sin, we're all suffers.And we all sin and we're all sinners. And our sin affects others. And we cause suffering in other people's lives and sin causes suffering in our lives. And we understand those identities, but the gospel transforms those identities. And as we begin to understand it, we understand rightly that we're saints, that we've been set apart by God. We've been made holy. The holy spirit is working in us to conform our lives into the character and a reflection of Christ himself. And we're a Royal priesthood set apart by God and his grace. We're saints. Paul even acknowledges and in his letters to the church, he even greets them as saints. So it's important to remember that, yes, we sin. Yes, we are sinned against, and yes, we suffer. But because of the gospel, we're saints, because of the gospel, God calls us sons, sons, and daughters, or family. That transforms the way we understand how we relate to him, how we relate to other members of the body of Christ.What does it mean to be a family? How does the family relate to each other? How do we relate to our father? That's important to recognize. They call us ambassadors, that our role here on this earth as followers of Christ, is to be ambassadors. We have a ministry that he's given us to bring this gospel, to proclaim this gospel. And so in every circumstance, we find ourselves in we're to be ambassadors of the gospel. For every conversation we're in, we're an ambassador. An ambassador is a full-time job. It's a 24/7 job. And I think sometimes we forget about ambassadors because we don't interact with ambassadors often, and they're not in our daily language, our daily life, but an ambassador is a very, very particular role. Someone is sent to another place to represent a leader, or a king, or a nation in that place.So anything they do or say is representative of what the king would do or say if he were there and that's our role. So in every time and every circumstance, every conversation, the way that we respond is to represent the way the king will respond if he was here. And so when we remember this is our role. In our discussions with our kids and those disagreements that happened with our spouse in that moment, we're ambassadors. So the gospel fundamentally changes the way that we understand who we are and how we live. And sometimes if we limit it just to information that we have to know, we miss the fact that the power of the gospel transforms us and completely recreates our identity.www.redemptionhill.comwww.christianity.com Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:00:00 -0500 2025-04-16T08:07:17-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/videos/video-answers/what-is-sanctification.html https://www.christianity.com/videos/video-answers/what-is-sanctification.html Andy Naselli https://www.christianity.com/author/andy-naselli/ For more information about Andy Naselli, visit: www.andynaselli.comFor more information about Christianity, visit: www.christianity.com Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:00:00 -0500 2025-04-16T08:07:17-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/videos/video-answers/what-happens-to-infants-when-they-die.html https://www.christianity.com/videos/video-answers/what-happens-to-infants-when-they-die.html Mark Dever https://www.christianity.com/author/mark-dever/ For more information about Mark Dever, visit: www.9marks.orgFor more information about Christianity, visit: www.christianity.com Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:00:00 -0500 2025-04-16T08:07:17-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/videos/video-answers/what-did-jesus-mean-by-calling-people-to-repent.html https://www.christianity.com/videos/video-answers/what-did-jesus-mean-by-calling-people-to-repent.html Joel Bradberry https://www.christianity.com/author/joel-bradberry/ Repentance means to have a change of our mind - of our way of thinking about things. It's not just, "Okay, I don't want to sin anymore, so I'm going to change my mind. I'm not going to sin any longer." It really is, it's coming under the knowledge - the truth - to agree that my sin is terribly offensive to God. Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:00:00 -0500 2025-04-16T08:07:17-04:00 https://www.christianity.com/videos/video-answers/how-gospel-shapes-understanding-of-racial-reconciliation.html https://www.christianity.com/videos/video-answers/how-gospel-shapes-understanding-of-racial-reconciliation.html Raymond Goodlett https://www.christianity.com/author/raymond-goodlett/ Racial reconciliations has always been one of those buzz topics, very, very popular things that people are trying to address. I think people look out and they see a need to address that issue. I know within my own marriage it's something that people look at. I'm African American, my wife is white. People look at us and they say, "Well, do you have something to say about this?" I think most times people approach the issue by saying, "We look out at the world and things don't seem right across ethnic lines, and we need to fix it." And then we start coming up with different ways to approach that. And here's what we should do.But in Ephesians 2, there's actually an interesting and maybe overlooked aspect to racial reconciliation. And the way I often put it for people is that racial reconciliation is first a thing to be believed, not first a thing to be achieved. Here's why I say that. In Ephesians 2:14, the Apostle Paul actually says, "For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the wall of hostility." And so what you find are these, you look at the tenses of all these verbs, Jesus is our peace. The Apostle Paul doesn't say one day He hopes to be our peace, speaking of the relationship between Jew and Gentile across ethnic lines. He says, He actually has made us both one.And he speaks here in Ephesians 2 about abolishing that hostility which existed between the two, all through the cross. And so when we look at that, He's created in Himself, it says, one new man. And I think you have to take a step back and ask yourself, "Has Jesus actually done this? Has He accomplished this on the cross? Has He succeeded?" If so then we need to take a step back and say then, "We have been reconciled not only to God, but to one another through Jesus' work on the cross." And so racial reconciliation is first a thing to be believed. And only then after we consider that, a thing to be achieved.For more info:www.redemptionhill.comwww.christianity.com Wed, 22 Jan 2025 09:00:00 -0500 2025-04-16T08:07:17-04:00