Days, Feasts and the Crucifixion

Many don't realize there are more sabbaths described in the Old Testament than simply every 7th day of the week.  In addition, it is helpful to understand that the Hebrew days were counted from sunset to sunset rather than midnight to midnight as they are in modern times. Putting these things together may serve to …

Practical Teaching

"For We Shall See Him As He Is" Practical teaching addresses a very real concern: that of sin in the believer’s life. It seeks to equip the faithful in Christ to have "victory" in his life over sin and to help him achieve practical holiness. But there is great confusion today over what teaching is …

Reasons for Hardship

It seems common for some to think that hardship in a believer's life means God is "punishing" that person for some secret (or public) sin. Although this is a possibility as I hope to show, it isn't the only reason for suffering in the life of a believer. First it's important to understand that a "believer," …

God’s Judgment

There's this belief in the world that God's judgment means great miraculous events like fire and brimstone raining from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19:24), or inexplicable plagues of sickness and swarms of creatures and storms in sequence to destroy a nation's economy as happened to Egypt (Exodus 7-12), ... always something big and spectacular. But the greatest and most frightening of …

Standards of Measure

I feel sorry for the multitudes of religious folks out there. I really do. Take for example those Ephesian worshippers of “the great goddess Diana, and the image that fell down from Jupiter” (Acts 19:35). You can almost see the genesis of their religious dogma. Imagine a people who had already been worshipping the goddess …

I will draw all men

There are times when, in our zeal to get out and share the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, we neglect the very best “method” at our disposal. There are books in the stores which develop strategies for engaging people in conversation, for targeting or leading them through pointed questions, for how to hold their …

Babel and the Church

  Though human government is ordained by God to uphold law and order for the welfare of societies (Romans 13:1-4), God has obviously not always been pleased with what men have done (see Dan. 5; Acts 12:23). It's the same with church government. Just because God has ordained it doesn't mean He's always pleased with what men …

In the beginning was the Word

John 1:1-2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God. John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full …

Would you tell God your name?

Genesis 32:24-32 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.  And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, …

The Illness in the Churches

The Christian assembly or church can be viewed as a body much like a human body (1 Cor 12).  A human body is made up of individual cells that when put together make the whole.  Individual cells die and others divide.  Over time, the individual cells that make up a human body may change numerous …