By Geoff Stevens Another school shooting. This time a Christian school. Many people are asking where God was. Why doesn’t God do something about all the tragedy in the world? Doesn’t He care? Psalm 110 answers this question. Surprisingly, King David was invited to hear God the Father conversing with the Son, which is so

By Mike Lii Have you ever heard someone who professes to know NT Greek teach that the Greek verb pisteuō, translated as “believe” in the Gospel of John, is in the Greek present tense, indicating continual action? According to these teachers, believe should really be understood as “continue to believe” throughout John’s Gospel. For them,

By Earl Radmacher* The Lord Jesus Christ became sin for me. I owed a debt I couldn’t pay. He paid a debt He didn’t owe. There are many people today who are rightfully distressed by the level of living of many of their fellow Christians, at least of those who profess life in Christ. They

By Ken Yates INTRODUCTION In the first two chapters of Romans, Paul speaks of the wrath of God. When they hear that phrase, most Evangelicals assume that it refers to the lake of fire. Unbelievers, it is thought, will be cast into hell and experience God’s wrath forever. Unbelievers will spend eternity in the lake

By Bob Wilkin Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new (NKJV). Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! (NIV). So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is]

By Philippe R. Sterling The virginal conception of Jesus was one of the signs that confirmed Him as the messianic son of David. God enabled a young Jewish virgin to have a baby in accordance with what He had revealed to the eighth-century BC prophet Isaiah. The messianic prophecy of Isa 7:13-15 continued the thread

By Kathryn Wright A MEAN MAN Over the Christmas holiday I heard an interesting story about the ill-tempered character Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’s novella A Christmas Carol. According to some historians, Dickens was visiting Edinburgh, Scotland, in the early 1840s when he stumbled across a tombstone in Canongate Kirkyard. The stone read “Ebenezer Lennox

By Bob Wilkin Most Focused Free Grace advocates have never heard of Robert Sandeman (1718-1771). He was born in Scotland and planted churches there. In 1760, he came to America and planted churches here, dying in Danbury, CT, in 1771. He was just fifty-three. His father-in-law was John Glas, a Scottish minister who profoundly influenced

By Ken Pierce And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: (1) God was manifested in the flesh, (2) Justified in the Spirit, (3) Seen by angels, (4) Preached among the Gentiles, (5) Believed on in the world, (6) Received up in glory (1 Tim 3:16, numbers added). Not long after the demise of

By Ken Yates Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?” (Mark 7:5)…[Jesus said] “There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are