-QUALIFIERS- (1) Since the very fact of male and female was a creative act of God and saturates the whole of Scripture and reality to this very day, this article is wholly and without apology Christian. Mutual attraction of the sexes toward love, marriage, and the bearing of children is a creative fact predating and [...]
“…Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” (II Timothy 3:7). There is a line in the movie, Love Comes Softly, in which little Missie says to grown-up Marty, “How did you get to be so old and not know how to do nuthin?” In this metaphor is an amazing [...]
Years ago my upholstery shop also served as a home repair center and jammed storage room, the perfect haven for spiders, almost the only menu of the mud daubers who discovered the trove and moved in. I couldn’t bring myself to fumigate them, mainly because I was among them, so the whole bunch took full [...]
How casually Christians mention God’s law of sowing and reaping (Galatians 6:7)! Nevertheless, how solemnly we owe this law our undivided attention, for this universal law of God is an astonishing phenomenon. It is anything but casual! Treating it so loosely before our Creator is a telling measure of our true spiritual condition before Him. [...]
The following is a devotional by Dr Henry M. Morris from the ICR publication, Days of Praise. I have posted another devotional by him under “Tragic Ignorance.” The one below seems so very appropriate for Christians today, considering the recent tragic turns toward evil America has taken. We Christians should take courage from this devotional, [...]
May I tell you something personal? I figured out on my own when I was only a kid that I was just passing through. You see, the times of my youth were not friendly to sissies, so Mother gave birth to just four hard headed boys to work the fields. I was the youngest, so [...]
(Romans 8:29-30) PART ONE The subject of predestination can only be in reference to the supernatural; it is foreign to atheism, except in terms of imagined space aliens, which drums up even more nonsense than religionists do. In reference to Christian theology, words such as predestination, Divine foreknowledge, and foreordination must be seen in perspective [...]
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” ROMANS 8:38,39 The base plate of truth [...]
“I just wanted to finish well.” —Actor Alex Kendrick in movie, “Flywheel,” after he obeyed God and it looked like he was bankrupt financially. But God hadn’t finished blessing him yet. “All of us will one day leave behind all that we have…and take with us all that we are.” —Rev. Larry Hatfield, in The [...]
According to the Word of God there will be at least three categories of people who wind up in Hell’s eternal flames, such as those who understood the message of salvation but rejected it, or those who never heard the message but ignored their natural intuition to seek more truth. But by far the greater [...]
” ‘Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not. yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. ‘ (Hosea 7:9) “One of the saddest dramas in human experience is the sight of a proud and confident leader who does not realize that his once-vaunted powers have deserted him [...]
These are not three sisters, but three very vital Biblical concepts. GRACE: God’s marvelous gift of a measure of grace (I Corinth. 1:4) actually comes down to the simple truth of our God-given freedom to choose for ourselves whether or not to serve God or to thumb our noses at Him. God’s grace built and [...]
Please note that title: It does not say, “HOW TO STUDY SCRIPTURE,” or “THE BIBLE.” While all three may be seen as the same, some may perceive them differently. The word, SCRIPT, means writing of any sort and would be called scripture. A compilation of scriptures by different authors is a bibliography, and may be [...]
Virtually nobody has ever heard of Puteoli, including Bible-believing Christians. That’s unfortunate, for Puteoli shared the spotlight in events that changed history. Now called Pozzuoli, Puteoli was a tiny city located in the Bay of Naples on the western coast of Italy. It is mentioned in Acts 28:13. Paul passed through it in about 62-63 [...]
The most common misperception in all humanity today on the subject of marriage is that it is a religious invention. Nothing could be more wrong and unproven in a very literal sense. We can deliberately pretend that indelibles in purity of human courtship and marriage do not exist, and so behave like a pack of [...]
PART ONE Many will see that title, shrug, and move on, assuming the subject is simplistic and burned over. But it isn’t simplistic at all, and it has endured the flames of assumption, yet stands there before us an unfazed monolith. In that title, you see, hangs Heaven or Hell for every soul ever born. [...]
Besides a few other famous names of church history, one in particular stands out: John Calvin, (1509-1564 A.D.). This man, like Martin Luther (1483-1546 A.D.), changed the entire playing field of church history, thereby greatly influencing world history itself. In his shadow came one James Arminius (1560-1609 A.D.), countering Calvin’s influence. Highly intellectually trained from [...]
Before you begin, I beg you to review the previous article, “Is God in control?” This will make what I am about to say come together in a meaningful way. The whole idea here is to put our minds into the proper perspective for considering humanity’s role in the subject of control. What is that [...]
FORENOTE Possibly the most used phrase in Christian circles today is, “God is in control.” No matter what awful thing happens, disaster, disease, war, tyranny, all such things, “God is in control” is shouted from the housetops by everyone from the least of laity to the height of scholarship. Well, excuse me, but in the [...]
IMPORTANT NOTE Christian eyes reading this will almost certainly miss the distinction between Christian and non-Christian marriages. Today’s Christian minds have watched Hollywood’s film version(s) from childhood, until they wear Hollywood glasses to evaluate all versions of it. Please, readers, take off those glasses, or don’t bother reading this article. This one is the Scriptural [...]
IMPORTANT NOTE Christian eyes reading this will almost certainly miss the distinction between Christian and non-Christian marriages. Today’s Christian minds have watched Hollywood’s film version(s) from childhood, until they wear Hollywood glasses to evaluate all versions of it. Please, readers, take off those glasses, or don’t bother reading this article. This one is the Scriptural [...]
IMPORTANT NOTE These rules are not primarily based on worldly academic disciplines of public speaking and Master of Ceremony in the titled subject, although it may include them. Rather, they are logically gleaned from the foundational values of the Scriptures. Because of the very purpose for which it is done, that is, the salvation of [...]
-IMPORTANT NOTE- These rules are not primarily based on worldly academic disciplines in the titled subject, although it may include them. Rather, they are logically gleaned from the foundational values of the Scriptures. Because of the very purpose for which it is done, that is, the worship and adoration of Almighty God, the true atmosphere [...]
-IMPORTANT NOTE- These rules are not primarily based on worldly academic disciplines in the titled subject, although it may include them. Rather, they are logically gleaned from the foundational values of the Scriptures. Because of the very purpose for which it is done, that is, the worship and adoration of Almighty God, the true atmosphere [...]
Jesus Christ Himself said we should humbly offer the other cheek if someone slaps us (Luke 6:29). If Christians are not careful to understand what Jesus meant, all of Christianity would park on a church pew and wait for God to wreck his enemies so He could tell us, “Okay, you can come out now.” [...]
Imagine being on the top deck of an Amtrak vista car as it speeds through the mountains. For a long stretch of track the trip is mostly through a series of long tunnels with only a sudden peek of daylight now and then between tunnels. In the distant we catch a fleeting glimpse of a [...]
One of the best humorous stories I know of to illustrate the importance of Biblical words and meanings is one about two brothers who got a job driving railroad spikes. Neither of them were “raised” by their parents, but were jerked up by the hair of the head. The youngest one didn’t have a lick [...]
God’s vehicle is His church. It has a unique transmission in it: You have to throw it into reverse to go forward. –DA A single mistake in reasoning can be the doorway into a stadium of error. Although absolutes exist where even criminals rely on mutual trust, the whole of the stadium’s operation has nothing [...]
I can’t resist sharing a very curious observation about the Apostle Paul, his evangelistic efforts, church history, as well as world history. If one looks at a world globe, we see north and south are divided by lines called meridians, while east and west lines are called parallels. The equator is the 50th parallel, the [...]
Today, August 27th, 2008, was my dear dad’s birthday. He was born in 1894 and lived 92 years worth of poverty, hard work, sweat, troubles, world wars, and a great deal of fun and pleasures. He fought in World War I, had a finger shot off, was one of only 19 out of a whole [...]