A friend who is near ninety called me the other day to talk about Simon the magician in Acts 8. My friend said, “He was really born again, wasn’t he? […]

Who’s in charge? When the world is falling apart, who’s in charge? When the government is hopelessly corrupt, the religious leaders are little more than hypocrites, and the kids are […]

I recently responded to a question about whether the broken record approach can be turned against us. The questioner asked if a person we were witnessing to might just keep […]

I hadn’t given this passage much thought in the past. Then I got an email asking who hunts souls and what that is talking about. Ezekiel 13:18-23 talks about false […]

Bible Study Fellowship has been going through the book of Romans. They are currently in Romans 9-11, and they are taking a very Calvinistic position. I’m told they have taken […]

Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God… (Mark 1:14). Recently, I was looking at the first chapter […]

Recently our church completed reading through the four Gospels. I noticed as I read that the word gospel is used in the four Gospels in a way that is different […]

I am reading a book on universal salvation by Kalen Fristad, a United Methodist minister. It hasn’t started well. Here is a bad quote on the definition of belief: Salvation […]

  I received the following email question that I think is super: A Calvinist friend said that if saving faith isn’t a gift, then it would seem to give a […]

So he made haste and came down, and received Him joyfully (Luke 19:6). Clearly, we can learn from the people we read about in the Scriptures. There are good examples […]