The 23rd of September 2025 is the day when the Lord will rapture his church from the world so that the 7 year Tribulation can start! We are living through prophecy in real time!! If you call me tomorrow, and I don't answer—you'll know where I am, and you'll know what is coming. Now that…
James opens his epistle with a baffling statement: “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing” (1:2-4). Of course every Christian yearns to be made perfect and entire—to…
As Christians, we take seriously what the Bible says about how we should live—and this includes how we should dress, adorn, and present ourselves. Three NT passages (1 Corinthians 11, 1 Timothy 2, and 1 Peter 3) specifically mention how Christians should or should not wear their hair. In the King James Version, 1 Timothy…
There are different kinds of worship; not all worship is divine worship—i.e., the type of worship that someone gives to God or a god. This is less apparent to those of us who speak modern English, because in our idiom the word "worship" now refers almost exclusively to the reverence given to a deity; unless…
One of the most glorious truths of scripture is that Jesus of Nazareth—a Jewish man who had a mother, siblings, and friends, who ate, slept, and drank, and who put on his shoes one at a time just like anyone else—is also somehow the Creator who brought everything that exists into existence. Many biblical passages…
The other day as I was reading 2 Corinthians I noticed a powerful parallel that sheds some light (pun intended, as you'll see) on how we understand God's nature. When I saw this connection, it was a revelatory moment that strengthened my understanding of "the mighty God in Christ." As an introduction, some people may…
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