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As you look around at all the chaos, and uncertainty today, one must ponder: Where is God in all of this? Why would God allow all the injustice and destruction all over this nation? In fact, we see this pattern in most, if not all, of the world. How did we reach this...

We sing that glorious song, “Stand up, Stand up for Jesus ye Soldiers of the word, lift high His royal banner, ye must not be deterred.” We are prompted by the song to lift our banners high. What Does It Mean to Stand Up For Jesus? Lifting your banner high sounds like...

In our previous blog, we found our Bible asking where death’s sting was. We saw that death’s sting came from sin. Adam and Eve suffered death, or rather, the penalty for death only after they sinned. So many people are under the impression that the sting of death is...

The resurrection offer is just that, a free gift for the taking. And yet while many Christians look to His death and resurrection as something holy, do they look at it as something precious and something to hold on to closely, like their wallet or purse, for example?...

In the book of Genesis, God made a promise to Abram. What that promise did has a great bearing on all the foundational concepts we find within the pages of the Bible. Picture Abram living in an ungodly place and put it into the concept of a sinner living in sin. God...

Hebrews 11 is called the “faith chapter.” It begins in verse 1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Faith Begins When We Believe, and That Belief Leads Us to Hope... We read that faith involves “evidence” of things that...

In our previous blog, we saw that God created man. He put them in the garden and gave them free moral agency. They had the ability to choose. God told them a clear command, but they chose to disobey that command. This one transgression forever Changed their life. One...

Life and Death: What Happens When We Die? Part 1 “What happens when we die?” is not a question of biology.. We know that blood stops flowing through our veins, and our hearts, lungs, and brains stop functioning. Beyond the obvious physical aspects of “dying,” as...

Since Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution in 1859, there has been an ongoing debate about whether modern life on Earth evolved over millions of years, or was created by God over six days, with Him resting on, blessing, and sanctifying the seventh (the...

No matter the denomination, baptism is an integral part of being a believer and follower of Christ. At Greater Phoenix Church of God, we believe it is vital to understand the meaning of baptism and its place in Christianity and why it’s an essential part of a...