By Anneka Mulleri In 1 John 3:16-17, John uses psychē and bios, two Greek words that can mean “life.” John writes: By this we know love, because He laid down […]

By David M. Renfro As discussed in the Introduction to the Plagues in the January-February 2025 issue, the first nine plagues can be viewed as three cycles of three plagues […]

By Kathryn Wright The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a well-known novel by L. Frank Baum. Published on May 17, 1900, it follows the adventures of a girl from Kansas […]

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 […]

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 […]

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? […]

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 […]

By John H. Niemelä John 3:16 is the most famous quotation from Jesus. Some would take issue with that statement. Some think the idea that Jesus said those words is […]

By Ken Pierce Few would rank the book of Job as one of the Bible’s top ten books, yet it is a book that has much to say about real […]

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 […]