By John H. Niemelä Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God. Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen

By Bob Wilkin In the March 2024 issue of Christianity Today, Kevin Brown, President of Asbury University in Wilmore, KY, wrote: “What the Asbury Revival Taught Me about Gen Z.” The subtitle is, “A year ago, I saw the cure for casual Christianity.” Two sentences in particular grabbed my attention: Students are less interested in

By Art Farstadi During the hundreds of years in which the notorious Spanish Inquisition was in force to root out and destroy “heresy,” there was a ceremony called the auto da fe, which is Portuguese for “act of faith.” In Spain, Portugal, and their New World colonies, Protestants, Jews, and other religious nonconformists were frequently

By Ken Yates Every one of us have heard a gospel presentation that started off like this: “You must recognize that you are a sinner.” I visited a church website recently that described how one could “have a relationship with Jesus Christ.” It said that “it starts with admitting that you are a sinner.” To

By Bob Wilkin Have you ever said, “Praise the Lord”? If so, what did you mean? There is a lot of confusion in Christianity about what the expression means. Most people think that we praise the Lord when we 1) say the words Praise the Lord, or 2) have happy feelings during worship. But neither

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