As Christians, most of us are not engaged in pulpit ministry. Our time between Sundays is spent doing secular work that might not seem to have value for the spread of the gospel. Therefore, we may view ourselves as second-class disciples. That may have been the way some members of the church in Colosse regarded […]
A reporter once asked President Herbert Hoover, “Mr. President, how do you handle criticism? Do you ever get agitated or tense?” “No,” President Hoover replied, seemingly surprised at the question, “of course not.”
The context of Ezekiel’s writing was during the time of Judah’s 70 year captivity in Babylon. Many of the Jews who were carried away into captivity were innocent, and were not responsible for the sins which had caused Judah to be carried away into Babylon.
A querist asks, “In 1 Corinthians Chapter 7, Paul refers a couple of times to be speaking under “his own opinion” in regard to marriage. In one sense he even basically says “this is
A querist asks, “It would seem that death is all around us. Someone dies – you know the lifestyle they lived was not good, and you know their feelings about God were not good – does one pray for God’s mercy regarding that person?”
Several years ago, a national dry goods association conducted a survey of sales representatives to determine how many sales calls each representative needed to make on a prospective client before convincing the client to place an order. The results were eye-opening.
You heard it here first friends — the end of the world — the day of Christ’s revealing and God’s final judgment will occur on April 5, 2007. How does this writer know? I read it on the Internet, of course. An 80-year-old Sanford, North Carolina man named Frank J. Potter, is proclaiming Christ’s second […]
A querist asks, “Is Psalm 110 a Messianic Psalm? The problem that Jesus posed to the Pharisees in Matthew 22:41-46, gives clear evidence that the Jews accepted Psalms 110 as being Messianic. Jesus was able to use the passage
The Lord’s Day is unlike any other day of the week. When John received his vision from the Lord of future events while exiled on the island of Patmos, he spoke of it as
One day when the Pharisees saw Jesus eating with publicans and sinners, they asked Jesus’ disciples, “Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?” (Matthew 9:10-11). When Jesus heard what they said, He replied to them, “They that be whole
A querist asks, “Does the phrase, ‘second death’ in the book of Revelation, imply in any way the doctrine of reincarnation?”
God has always been willing to reach out to sinful man (John 3:16-17; Romans 5:8; Titus 2:11; 2 Peter 3:9; cf. Ezekiel 33:11). As Christians, we can be assured that if we ask, we
In Revelation Chapter 10, John was told by the angel to take the little book and “eat it up” (Revelation 10:8-10 KJV). Upon eating it, it would taste in his mouth as honey, but it would be bitter in his stomach. As with John, the prophet Ezekiel was given a similar command to master the […]
A querist asks, “How did women in the Old Testament enter into a covenant relationship with God? What was the confirming sign of the binding agreement between women and God?”
A querist asks, “Did we have a choice to exist before we were born? I’m experiencing serious doubt and chaos in my heart about my existence upon this destitute place called earth. After all, I didn’t want to come here to begin with.”
A querist asks, “I recently learned that one of my cousins, in another state, has been attending a local church where they share a common cup during the communion portion
When Jesus revealed His divinity to the Jews residing in Nazareth, they questioned His authority (Matthew 13:53-58). This was not unexpected, considering they only knew Him
A querist asks, “Does anyone view Matthew 5:27-30 literally, and if so, do you practice it?” In Matthew 5:27-30-NKJV, the text reads: “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you, That whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already […]
A querist asks, “In Genesis 6:3, does the phrase, ‘yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years’ mean that man’s earthly body won’t last more than 120 years (as opposed to all of the men that lived to around 900 yrs. old in Genesis 5)?”
A querist asks, “Are there scriptures in the Bible that tell us why men and women get married, and how to stay married to your spouse?”