When I study the New Testament, I like to see how it deals with Old Testament quotes. It is always interesting to go back and study the original context. For example, take Heb 10:5-7: Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have

The word homologeō, often translated confess, is found quite regularly (23 times in the Majority Text) in the New Testament, but it may be surprising in what sense it is used most often. We are accustomed to thinking of confession in relation to confessing sins. But surprisingly confession of sins is mentioned only three times

I grew up in a “black-and-white” world, where “right” and “wrong” was ingrained in me by parents, church, and culture. It’s not a bad thing, generally speaking. The moral vacuum that people grow up with today is far worse, resulting in many destroyed lives. But thinking you have right and wrong all figured out is

What do you think about politics in the United States today? Are you encouraged by the work of the Supreme Court, the House, the Senate, and the President? Do you find that our leaders are doing a good job of promoting godliness in our country? What about the politics in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the

By Paul Carpenter On a late winter night in the spring semester of my senior year in 1975 at Miami Christian College, in Miami, Florida, my world came crashing down around me. I had been postponing a dreaded assignment: write a major paper on the meaning of Heb 6:4-6. The text reads, “For in the

By Jeff Ropp I firmly believe that every disciple of Jesus Christ should be concerned about world missions (Matt 28:18-20). When I speak of world missions I am referring to the sending of authorized believers to people of other faiths to make disciples of Jesus Christ. John 3:16 gives reasons why we should be involved

The first member of the Trinity is referred to as the Father throughout the New Testament. However, while we might expect the usages to be fairly uniform from book to book, they are not. There are less than ten uses in most of the books of the New Testament. Luke and 1 John have over

God’s Harvest Program The three central feasts of Judaism, at which every male was commanded by the Old Testament to gather, have symbolic, typological significance: Passover speaks of redemption (the Cross). Pentecost is connected with harvest (the Church). Tabernacles anticipates full blessing (the Kingdom). Leviticus 23:17 and Num 28:26 connect Pentecost with harvest and first-fruits.

In John 6:26ff, the Lord has an extended conversation with a large crowd of Jews. Some of the things Jesus says are easy to understand. He says that it is the will of the Father that all who believe in Him may have eternal life and that Jesus will raise the believer up on the

By Gary Edmonson Without going into too much detail, I’ll just briefly outline my experience in all this. I grew up with almost no knowledge of Jesus Christ and never once attended any church until I was 17 years old, at which time I attended an evangelistic meeting where I was basically manipulated into walking