by Bill Elliff
September 25, 2023
More numerous than you know are the moments when God has pulled you out of the pit by His compassion. Rescued you because of the pure grace of His mercy. Delivered you because of previous promises He has made, perhaps even to your own parents. Shown kindness to you that you did not deserve simply because of His great love and eternal purposes.
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by Bill Elliff
September 20, 2023
The beginning pages of Genesis give us the operating principles upon which God and man were to function. God, in mercy, provided a garden with every possible goodness. He intended for man to enjoy this perfect environment but, most importantly, to enjoy God’s continual presence. God and man and wife would walk together.
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by Bill Elliff
August 21, 2023
It is our great problem and the reason for all that is evil in this world. Man chose to sin from the beginning—to run independently from the God who made him. And the results have been catastrophic. No one could deliver us from the foundational problem that separates us from God … except One.
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by Bill Elliff
July 31, 2023
You have a tragic, irreconcilable problem. You are a sinner (and so are we all). We came into this world separated from God, sinners by birth. But we are also sinners by choice. And our sin bears the ultimate result: it separates us from God. This is the worst penalty, for we were designed to live on God, and it’s impossible to find life without Him.
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by Bill Elliff
May 25, 2023
Have you seen the kingdom of God? More importantly, have you entered the Kingdom? Many profess to be Christians, but they have never seen or really entered.
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by Bill Elliff
February 06, 2023
What happens when you combine a desperate man, a revealing Christ, and a courageous messenger?
A changed life.
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by Bill Elliff
December 31, 2022
All your resolutions and goals—personal, relational, professional, and financial—are temporary and will seem so trivial on that day. They pale in comparison to this singular eternal question ...
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by Bill Elliff
November 24, 2022
Christ's coming was for one purpose: to rescue us. To deliver us from this world and the cruel taskmaster of sin. His payment for our sins on the cross and our faith in Him for that very act sets us free!
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by Bill Elliff
November 02, 2022
There is Someone who is in constant pursuit of people, for all the right reasons. The evidence is seen in His words and relentless search for others while He was on earth. Since He has not changed, we must assume that He is still pursuing people, all with perfect motivation.
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by Bill Elliff
December 08, 2021
The great miracle of Christianity is that there is a fundamental change that occurs when we come to faith in Christ. There are two changes that happen to a believer that are both judicial (dealing with the problem of the guilt of our sin) and practical (dealing with the problem of our power over sin in our daily life.
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by Bill Elliff
December 07, 2021
God has existed for all of eternity. He has no beginning and no end. Such a thought is beyond our linear thinking. But just because God created us in time, and we operate in time it doesn’t mean that time is not suspended for God. He is eternal.
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by Bill Elliff
December 06, 2021
If you don’t know how completely unable you are to save yourself from sin, death, and hell, you will not understand why this verse is so important. If you can’t make yourself right with God, (and you can’t), then who can?
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