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 »
Why Study Genesis?
For many, the Bible really starts with the first verse of Matthew chapter one. Any time we study from the Old Testament, someone will come up to me and say some version of this, “I hope we don’t stay in this long. We need to hear about Jesus.” They will complain the Old Testament isn’t… Read More »
Listening To God (How to Understand the Bible)
“To you I will give all this authority and their glory, for it has been delivered to me, and I give it to whom I will. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”-Luke 4:6-7 Is the verse above from the Bible? Is it inspired, accurate, and divinely revealed? Can it be… Read More »
The Word Of God Is A Blessing
“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”-Hebrews 4:12 What would the Christian church be without the word of God? Certainly, much of the religious world… Read More »
May God Put Us In Order
If the Lord wills, the North Second Street Church of Christ will ordain elders in our congregation by March of 2021. This article is designed to explain and remind us of the process laid out and agreed to by the men of the congregation in November of 2019. We pray that everything, “should be done… Read More »
Was Jesus Born Before Anno Domini?
Perhaps no other group of Christians is as concerned with the date of Christ’s birth, resurrection, and ascension, as churches dedicated to restoring the faith, worship, and practice of the New Testament. An unknowable number of tracts, sermons, and Bible studies have focused on doing away with every tradition of man that has been added… Read More »
In, Before, Or Not There At All?
“the ark of the covenant…in which was a golden urn…and Aaron’s staff”-Hebrews 9:4 “There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone”-I Kings 8:9 “Put back the staff of Aaron before the testimony,”-Numbers 17:10 “Take a jar…manna in it…Aaron placed it before the testimony”-Exodus 16:33-34 So which is it? Are Aaron’s staff… Read More »
The Creation, Flood, and Red Sea
For some, the accounts of God’s miracles are a barrier to faith. In reality, they are bedrocks of true belief. The problem people run into is not a lack of faith but a lack of imagination. How could those stories be real?!?! To quote Jesus, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things… Read More »