The priesthood of all believers is the teaching within the Protestant Reformation, particularly in Lutheranism, where all believers have direct access to God and do not need to go through a priest. Jesus is our high priest, and Jesus said to go directly to him...
Throughout the Bible, the word "heaven" is used in a variety of ways. But when most people ask "what is heaven," they are specifically asking about either the spiritual realm of God and the angels or about the future dwelling place of the redeemed after death (the...
The term "fear of God" or "fear of the Lord" features heavily throughout the Bible. In both the Old and the New Testaments, it is a fundamental virtue to fear God. Many key figures in the Bible are praised for having such fear, and the Scriptures repeatedly tell us...
The Bible contains a number of passages that tell us to "meditate" on God's word, works, and attributes. Many Christians today thus ask what it means to meditate and how exactly one should meditate. In a culture that is enamored with unbiblical definitions and...
The standard dictionary definition of meditation is "continued or extended thought; reflection; contemplation."[fn]https://www.dictionary.com/browse/meditation?s=t (Accessed 01/13/2021)[/fn] However, when most people today talk about "meditation," they typically have...
When one reads through the books of 1 and 2 Kings, a common indictment on rulers is that they continued in the "sins of Jeroboam, son of Nebat." Indeed, every single king over the Northern ten tribes is guilty of this, until finally, we read: "When He had torn Israel...
Christians have different opinions about having images of Jesus in their homes. Some say we can have images of Jesus as reminders of Him as long as we don't bow down to them. Others say no, because the Bible says not to make an image of the Lord God (Lev. 26:1)....
When Jesus was on trial before the High Priest and the Jewish leaders, they asked Jesus if He was "the Christ, the Son of God." The word "Christ" simply means "anointed one" (i.e., Messiah), but why do the Jewish leaders pair "Christ" with "Son of God"? Did they...
While David is not generally numbered among "the Prophets" in the narrow sense of those specific biblical authors who wrote that category of Old Testament books, David was filled with the Holy Spirit by whom he wrote the Psalms, many of which were prophetically...
Generally speaking, the east wind in the Bible is a negative thing. It is associated with the arrival of locusts (Exodus 10:13), the destruction of ships and crew (Psalm 48:7; Ezekiel 27:26), as well as crops (Ezekiel 17:10), with drought (Hosea 13:15), scattering...