Coming Untrue

When I was a little kid, I have to admit I wasn’t much of an athlete. Having been raised with different games and sports than were popula...

As someone who does a fair bit of writing, one of the features of the Bible that most persuades me of its authenticity is the staunch refu...

Once or twice in the last year and a half I’ve heard a Christian say something to the effect that they are trusting the Lord to keep them ...

“Is is possible to be born again without knowing when it happened?” I was once confronted by an older Christian who wanted to know the e...

A recent YouTube video from Australian pastor Matt Littlefield is introduced with this statement: “Since the middle of the 19th century ...

It was 1966 when Pete Townshend wrote yet another generational anthem for The Who, this one intended as a tribute to the trendy, rebelliou...

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“For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness . Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the thing...

The Lord’s supper. The love feast. Communion. The Eucharist. The breaking of bread. Call it what you are comfortable with. Like baptism,...

Let’s get this straight right off the top: COVID vaccines are not the “mark of the beast”. Admittedly, government strategies for impleme...

“Do elders have authority?” A hundred years ago nobody would have asked this question. Today, authority of every kind is being challenge...

It’s the eighth shortest book in the Bible and the second shortest in the Old Testament — only 1,131 words in English in two brief chapter...

Prophetic language in scripture is always more difficult to interpret from a distance. This uncertainty is especially common when figura...

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That’s a good question. Our society is clearly messed up. It can be sick enough to think that promiscuity is normal, debauchery is free...

“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fa...

When not writing up the results of his research for publication, anthropologist Christopher Hallpike lived among the mountain tribes of Et...

“Are angels God’s sons?” The Old Testament contains five occurrences of the phrase “sons of God”; three in Job and two in Genesis. All f...

“Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.” New believers seeking to understand scriptu...

Religious people do some very strange and inconsistent things. Some observe holidays to which they have no attachment in the name of a God...