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Something about Learning a New Thing

There is something about learning a new thing - an unexplained excitement about a journey to discover the unknown. A journey to perhaps unravel a secret or knowledge of a previously known or unknown concept -- that which may be harnessed for the greater good. It often seems nature tucked away its many secrets. And the expedition to discover these, it reserved for the curious. Good thing excitement accompanies such voyage, else we won't bother. “It is He who reveals the profound and hidden things;             He knows what is in the darkness,             And the light dwells with Him."                                                   - Daniel 2:22 (NASB) "The secret things belong to the LORD our God,           but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever,           that we may observe all the words of this law.                                                 - Deuteronomy 29:29 It is the glory of God to conceal a matter,        But the glor

The Resurrection of Christ -- the Essence of our Faith

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Herein is the substance of our faith. The meat of that which we believe. The essence of why we believe. The object of what we believe. And the strength of our believe. For had Christ not died, there wouldn't have been the forgiveness of our sins. Had Christ not risen, there possibly wouldn't have been a reason to believe. For He died. And, He rose! Hallelujah, He is risen! He is risen indeed!! 15 Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. 3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. 6 After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of t