How can someone be a believer if they do not know what they believe? This series was created to help anyone, from youth to seasoned saints, understand the basic principles of our Christian faith.

“Yeah! I believe in God!” But, what does that mean? What is “belief” in God? Do we really understand what we mean when we confess that we “believe” in God?

“I believe in God” is not simply an acknowledgement that there is “a God” but that our confidence is placed in “the” Most High God, Ruler of the Universe, the One Supreme God.

God OUR Father and the Father of Jesus Christ, is self-sufficient and needful of nothing. God has rights and obligations He mercifully provides as He loves, cares for and watches over His children.

God, the Father Almighty, is unmatchable, unique among all beings and creatures on earth or in the heavens, and He possesses absolute power over all. There is no one like Him!

The Creator is the founder, author, inventor, originator, maker, generator and pioneer of all creation – of everything that is in heaven and earth.

The heavens. The earth. And every living thing. All declare the glory of God. Yes! The Lord God made them all! How great! How GREAT is our God!

Regardless of man’s chosen form of worship or denominational preference, mankind can and must agree. God, our Father, Creator is the only One worthy of total praise, worthy of total worship, worthy of our total surrender.

The Lord Jesus Christ serves as the hub from which all our beliefs radiate. Personal attachment to the hub, Jesus Christ, requires our total allegiance to Him.

The Father and Son are uniquely inseparable. To know the Father is to know Him as He is revealed to us through the Son.

When the Bible refers to Jesus as Son, it is declaring, pronouncing, and confessing His uniqueness … His deity. There should be no doubt in our minds that Jesus is God’s “monogenes” Son, God’s only begotten Son our Lord!

Jesus was fully God, but He was also fully human. As the Son of God and the Son of Man, Jesus, our Lord and our King, is deserving of both titles.

When the Spirit (ruach) hovers or broods over the womb of Mary, we see a picture of God’s creative work once again. The physical man Jesus is the result of the creative breath of God’s Spirit.

The Incarnation, the Virgin Birth, and Peter’s hell-conquering confession that Jesus is “the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matt 16:16) are all crucial to the good news of forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life.

Christians today might be more tempted by the allure of a triumphalist faith, or by a distorted gospel that promises worldly satisfactions and success. But believers are baptized into the way of a suffering Lord who lays on his followers not a crown but a cross.

In the Roman Empire, crucifixion wasn’t only about death. It was about public disgrace. The problem with being crucified wasn’t just that it would kill you but that it would humiliate you at the same time.

The Son of God heals our nature by joining it to himself. Human nature is changed by this union. Mortality joins hands with immortality. The grave becomes the beginning of life.

The Son of God has taken our nature and the consequences of our sin to Himself as He descended to the very abyss of the human condition.