To woke teenagers everywhere, the patriarchy is something you want to topple. As in, “That’s just something old people say because they are conditioned to accept an evil, slavery-based, male dominated society. Fight the patriarchy, man.” If this makes no sense to you, consider yourself lucky. Speaking of confusing people, every time I bring up… Read More »
The Possibility Of Apostasy
The title of this article is a rewording of a false theory many of our religious neighbors espouse which claims a Christian can not be lost once they come to faith in Jesus. They teach humans have no free will concerning salvation, God chooses who will be saved or damned, and once God elects you… Read More »
Nothing New Under The Sun
“What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.”-Ecclesiastes 1:9 My friend, Brooks Cochran, gave me a book consisting of a series of David Lipscomb’s answers to reader’s questions from the years 1866 to 1910. Lipscomb was the editor… Read More »
Sex Education and the Christian
A study published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine shows abstinence-only education in schools does reduce the number of sexually active teens1. This is news only because, for so many years, politicians and commentators have screamed at the top of their lungs, “Abstinence-only sexual education does not work!” As a political issue, abstinence-only… Read More »
What Does The Church Teach? Nothing
“devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.”-I Timothy 4:13 A woman named Lena posted this question on my YouTube channel1 this week, “What churches teach the importance of Baptist [sic] in salvation?” From the context, you can tell she meant baptism. It’s a good question but one based on a… Read More »
Rightly Handling The Word Of Truth; Part V
My Boy Scout leader was a World War II veteran and two-time Purple Heart recipient named Billy Meharg. He would tell us a long story and then say, “I’ve said all that, to say this.” Allow me to borrow the idea. To get to today’s article, the groundwork of the Bible story had to be… Read More »
Rightly Handling The Word Of Truth; Part IV
In today’s article, we wrap up our introductory look into the story of the Bible and where major events fit in a timeline of world history. As we switch to the New Testament (NT) we narrow our window of years. The Old Testament was written during a period of a thousand years. The Holy Spirit… Read More »
Rightly Handling The Word Of Truth; Part III
Once a new Bible student has a grasp on the history of the nation of Israel, everything else falls into place. When Solomon died, the kingdom split into the northern ten tribes (called Israel) and two southern tribes (known as Judah). The northern kingdom was captured by the Assyrians in 722 BC. Judah was forced… Read More »
Rightly Handling The Word Of Truth; Part II
“solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.”-Hebrews 5:14 There is no substitute for reading the Bible. This system of organizing the Bible in a way to make it easier to find things, assumes you know the story of the… Read More »
Rightly Handling The Word Of Truth; Part I
It is not easy for me to remember phone numbers, addresses, or Bible verses. As a Christian seeking the truth of Scripture in my early 20’s, I gave up trying to remember specific, proof texts1. Don’t get me wrong, there are a few I could remember (Matthew 28:19; Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38) but I struggled… Read More »
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