[Editor’s note: I am aware women who have had an abortion and men who supported (even coerced) them into taking that action may read this article. God loves you and there is forgiveness in the name of Jesus. Please forgive any words you may find hurtful.-JS] The word “life” is more fully a part of
“So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.”-Matthew 7:17-18 How do you judge the health of a plant? If it is vibrant and healthy, it yields fruit which strengthens those who partake of what
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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