The Bible says this about faith: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen" (Heb. 11:1, NASB). The dictionary says faith is "confident belief in the truth." These are great comments on faith. But, sometimes faith is best...
We live in a world hostile to Christianity. Secularism, false religions, and self-deification are some of the tools the enemy is using to spread the lies that lead to eternal damnation. Unbelievers are its preachers and teachers. They do not know they are...
The word "doctrine" comes from the Greek word "didaskolos," and it basically means "teaching." It is used many times in the New Testament. Doctrine is extremely important in Christianity. By it we know who God is, what He has done, what the Trinity is, the deity of...
Death is like a rude visitor. It sometimes arrives unannounced. Other times, we see it coming. It does not care about our feelings. It takes no concern for the inconvenience it brings. It wants only to be served and to be answered. It takes who it wants and all...
Funerals are sober reminders of our own mortality. They have a way of quietly bring us face to face with the fact that one day we will die. Death is a patient and perpetual enemy that reduces all our arguments about life down to one truth: one day, we will die. ...
Jesus drew lines in the moral landscape of Israel. He opposed the religious hypocrisy of the Pharisees and Sadducees and set a proper distinction between what is holy and what is hypocrisy (Matt. 23). For this, he was killed. But, the powerful testimony he left...
What is the Bible? Is it inspired or man-made, inerrant or faulty, myth or history? For some, the Bible is a wondrous book given by God to men. For others, the Bible is a collection of myths used to control people's thinking. Whatever the opinion, it goes without...
Am I saved? The Bible says "Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves!" (2 Cor. 13:5). Well, are you in the faith? Have you examined yourself? It is easy to ask and sometimes difficult to answer. The Christian faith is as follows. There is...
Psalm 139:23-24, "Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts; 24 And see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way." These are perhaps some of the most poignant words in the entire Bible. In these two verses,...
Since Jesus is God in flesh, our mediator (1 Tim. 2:5), this means that the intimacy we have with God is with Christ. In fact, we are "called into fellowship with His Son, Christ Jesus," (1 Cor. 1:9). The word "fellowship" in Greek is "koinonia" which is translated...