The 70 weeks of Daniel prophecy in Dan 9:24-27 is absolutely amazing! Though there is much more to the 70 weeks that could be exposited, our focus here is on the timing of Christ’s first coming into Jerusalem. This amazing prophecy is presented in scripture, and can be calculated right down to the very day. Truly, it is one of the greatest, if not the greatest prophecy of all, seeing that it also encompasses the fulfillment of Christ’s gospel. Yet, the Talmud curses those who

Your take on a few passages in the NT will most likely tell where you fall in the spectrum of belief on the required saving response to...

This passage (along with companion texts in Matt 16:24-26; Lk 9:23-26; Jn 12:24-26) is frequently taught today as a post-conversion...

Last year I read an article published in a Mennonite daily devotion ( Beside the Still Waters ) that encouraged practical and passive...

Did Paul mean that if the gospel isn’t simple then it must be corrupt? Simple as in easy, uncomplicated, basic?

One of a number of tactics that preachers or others often utilize in order to remain above reproof and discipline, is the misapplication...

In Luke 15 we have a story of two sons, neither of which loved their Father, both rebelling against Him. They hated Him and did not know...

In John 15:1-6 the Lord Jesus Christ declares, "I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. [2] Every branch in me that beareth...

When the Scriptures speak of denying self, losing ones life, taking up the cross, forsaking all, and following Christ, such as found in...

These are two important questions that must be considered, since Jesus is God and He would certainly know best on evangelizing and...

God’s Word presents only two categories or classes of man, not three as often unscripturally taught. This two-fold-only theme is found throughout Scripture, in hundreds of passages. As demonstrated below, a non-exhausted list, there are many labels given to both saved and lost, contrasting these two non-interchangeable categories, with nothing in between. The first label below applies to all true born again believers while the second, the contrast, to all the unsaved includin

The Lord Jesus preached in His Sermon on the Mount: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matt 6:24) Related to this is something the Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Cor 7:22-23: “For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant. Ye are bought with a price; be

I find Scripture keeps getting in the way of being a Calvinist, and Rom 9 is one area. If we were supposed to be Calvinists, the Bible would just make us one. We wouldn’t have to force it. But Rom 9 runs away from Calvinism, contradicts it, even though Calvinists use it to support their error. If we can't be a Calvinist as a direct consequence of Bible reading and teaching, then we shouldn't be one. Calvinists have their pet verses and Rom 9 ranks high on that ladder. They us

Frequently one hears this passage being misused and misinterpreted as to bring “carnal” into the nature of a saved person and that...

Most “evangelical” and “Baptist” churches today either preach no repentance or a false repentance, so a false gospel (2 Cor 11:4; Gal 1:6-9). Repentance is part of the gospel? Indeed it is. Preaching that Jesus died for our sins, was buried and resurrected, is certainly the heart of the gospel (1 Cor 15:1-4), but that is not all there’s to it; there is more to the gospel than that. That passage does summarize it in a nutshell for a specific purpose as that entire chapter puts

Out of convenience for a system that corrupts salvation and sanctification, labels are applied and used towards professing believers that...

The teaching of "unbelief" towards true believers is a fairly common component of certain branches of Christendom, especially those who...

Though this teaching may be popular, it is far from the truth of Scripture, and nothing even remotely hints at the terrible error that a born again Christian could lose their salvation. Worst, it‘s a “damnable heresy” (2 Pet 2:1), which is a heresy that damns souls to hell. And this is nothing to say of how it greatly dishonours God, glorifies doubt and completely changes salvation and the gospel. People who embrace this heresy and reject the Eternal Security of Salvation or

In times past I met Reg Kelly, who pastors a church in southern Missouri, at a revival conference preached by him. There are a number of things we find praiseworthy in his ministry and preaching that we could list. In particular, we appreciate his stand against the evils of our day without fear of man, his rejection of the man-centeredness that runs rank everywhere and his exposure of modern Bible perversions. We certainly need more of that in a day of effeminate men. Neverth

Some time ago someone from the Mennonite evangelical denomination of EBMC or EMC (they were frolicking between the different churches which are essentially the same doctrinally and practically, and then six months later they are over in Pentecostal land) posted comments on social media about love. About the need for Christians to just “focus on the simple commandment of love,” quoting Jn 13:35: “By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to anoth