DID JESUS HAVE THE POWER TO PROPHESY?

When Jesus told His disciples, “But pray ye that your flight (from a besieged Jerusalem) be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day” was it because he had no idea the sabbath would shortly be abolished?  (See Matthew 24:20).  The need to...

WHEN GOD SAYS, “GET MAD!”

Did you know that the scriptures exhort believers to get angry sometimes? Not all anger is ungodly, you know. The apostle Peter warned us, in writing, that his fellow apostle Paul wrote some things in his epistles that are not that easily understood. (See 2 Peter...

GOD’S MASTER PLAN

Look about you! Do you really think you are witnessing God’s best efforts to save the world? Think of it: only a tiny minority in any given era have been afforded the opportunity of hearing and accepting or rejecting the gospel message. And is God using his best...

THE OLD MAN AND THE CROSS!

We are to “put off concerning the former conversation (Old English, meaning conduct, behavior) the old man (the old sinful nature, the former “you”), which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that ye put on the...

LIVING FAITH GENERATES CONTINUOUS OBEDIENCE

How few comprehend what it really means to “believe in Jesus Christ.” To believe in Jesus Christ is to believe what He said and to ACT UPON what He said. To believe in Jesus Christ is to believe that He is one’s Lord and then to allow Him to be...

WAS THE APOSTLE PAUL A WRETCHED SINNER?

The apostle Peter gave the church fair warning that his beloved fellow apostle Paul “in ALL his epistles (wrote) in them…some things hard to understand, which they that are unlearned (in the scriptures as a whole, both Hebrew and Greek scriptures) and...

WHY THE RABBIS REJECT JESUS!

The answer to that question is found in Christianity’s observance of the Good Friday – Easter Sunday tradition. The Easter Sunday tradition is an interesting one. Notice: A group of Pharisees approached Jesus Christ one day and demanded that He give them a...

A FIXED DEATH DATE?

Many believe the date of their death is already predetermined by God. “You’ll not die before your time!” How many times have you heard that statement? A widely held belief, but erroneous, like many other beliefs held by professing Christians. The...