The book of James is not where most people turn to for a discussion of Christology. James certainly did not write his epistle to teach on the subject of Christ’s deity, whereas other passages like the first chapter of Hebrews or the prologue of John were obviously...
The Sermon on the Plain is the term used for the discourse Jesus gives in Luke 6:20-49. The content and the context of the sermon are strikingly similar to the "Sermon on the Mount" that comprises Matthew chapters 5-7. The similarities are striking enough that many...
The incident of King Saul's sin and the subsequent removal of the Holy Spirit can seem quite out of place to the modern New Testament believer. We often fail to understand that the Holy Spirit works in a variety of ways. The New Testament sense of the indwelling work...
The Mennonites are a group of denominations that originated with the 16th-century Anabaptists. The Anabaptists are a movement during the time of the Protestant Reformation that was primarily defined by their commitment to strict nonviolence, refusal to take oaths or...
The public ministry of John the Baptist began somewhere between the years AD 27-29. Scholars base these dates on the detailed information in Luke 3:1-2, where Luke tells us that John's ministry began in the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar, during the time when Herod...
John the Baptist was imprisoned by Herod Antipas, the tetrarch of Galilee and Perea. Herod Antipas was a son of Herod the Great, who had been king of Judea and the surrounding regions during the time of Jesus' birth. After Herod the Great's death, his kingdom broke up...
John the Baptist preached a message of repentance expressed in water baptism and bearing active fruit in one's life in preparation for the appearing of the Messiah, whose coming would represent a divine visitation. It was in preparation for the very presence of God...