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How much do you know about spiritual biology?   Consider, for a moment, the beginning of spiritual life.   You are not born into this world alive spiritually.   Believe it or not all of us are born dead.   If someone took your pulse for vital signs of spiritual life you would be declared spiritually dead.   The Bible declares in Ephesians 2:1 – “And you were dead in trespasses and sins” (2:1; see also Eph. 4:18, 5:14; John 5:21; 1 John 3:14).   If we are all born dead, then how are we made alive spiritually?   What generates spiritual life in someone who is already physically alive?   Perhaps you have heard the term “born again;” that is what this term signifies.   You may be born physically; however, you must be born spiritually. Being born again refers to God gifting you with spiritual life by faith in Jesus Christ.   All those who have trusted in Jesus for the forgiveness of sins are born again and will live forever.   So, h...

The Bible is a precious, God-breathed message to you.   In that sense it is very personal.   Which of the following two examples best illustrates your involvement in the Bible on a daily basis?   John Newton (Author of Amazing Grace) loved and pursued the same woman his entire life.   He waited years till he was able to marry her and lived devotedly to her until her death.   John expressed his love to his wife Polly through love letters.   Polly expressed her love by saving these letters and after both of them died the letters were published in a widely celebrated collection in the 1700s.   Consider another example.   I found one of my friends late one night burning some papers in a bonfire.   “What are you doing?”   I asked.   “It’s over.”   He said, with a wry smile on his face.   And with that he emptied the contents of a little box of love letters into the fire.   This was his way of burning his bridges ...