Joanne B. Holstein is a Becker Bible Studies teacher and author of Guided Bible Studies for Hungry Christians. She has received her Master of Science degree in Psychology/Christian Counseling with honors from Liberty University. She is well-known as a counselor to Christian faithful who are struggling with tremendous burden in these difficult times. She is a leading authority on the history of development of the Christian churches and the practices and beliefs of world religions and cults.
Elisha journeyed to Mount Carmel and while he was there a Shunammite women came to him. Elisha performed a miracle to bring the Shunammite son back to life.
Mount Baalah was mentioned as one of the borders of the Tribe of Judah as well as being mentioned as one of the cities of the Tribe of Judah. It is a mountain on the north western boundary of Judah and Dan.
Noah’s ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month upon Mount Ararat. “And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged.
The LORD GOD told Moses to go up to Mount Abram, to the top of Pisgah one of the summits of Mount Nebo where Moses surveyed the Promised land. Moses was allowed to see the Promised Land.
Arminianism is a school of Protestant Christian theology that holds the Christian doctrine that salvation was brought about by Jesus Christ. It was founded by Jacobus Arminius who was a Dutch theologian. Most mainstream Protestantism and Evangelicalism accept Arminianism because of the influence of John Wesley and can be found distinguished within the Methodist movement.
Circumcision was part of the ceremonial law that the LORD God gave to the children of Israel. It was through the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ that made atonement for our sins; this made the ceremonial law obsolete.
Charles Peter Wagner introduced the concept that God has established the plan for the earth, and the apostles will execute that plan. Wagner moves the same direction as the Latter Rain Pentecostal movement.1980 he began the movement known as the Neocharismatic movement.
The Azusa Street Revival was the beginning of the restoration of the New Testament Christianity. This early revival had participants believing they were experiencing an infilling of the Spirit and power of God just as the early Apostles did on the Day of Pentecost.
The Christian Church was spreading and growing strong in the early middle ages, with many of the faithful spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ. Explorers like Clovis and Charlemagne spread Christianity throughout the lands that they conquered. During this time of great growth of Christian faithful in Europe and the Byzantine Empire, another great civilization was arising in Arabia, and another important religion was beginning. That religion is called Islam. The people who follow the religion of Islam are…