Teaching
John 8:12 ESV, I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. Frequently, the first 11 verses of John 8 are examined apart from verse 12. Despite the fact that the first 11 verses clearly depict
Teaching
Jesus gave us a daily prayer, not a crisis prayer. Part 2: why "deliver us from the evil one" names a personal enemy, and how to pray it every day.
Teaching
Who is responsible for the evil that assaults us? Part 1 traces the Torah, the rabbis, Maimonides, Augustine and Calvin before Jesus names the evil one.
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Pope Leo XIV calls the death penalty inadmissible. Scripture, Innocent I, Aquinas and the Catechism of Trent taught otherwise. A case for the sword.
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Recovering from breast cancer, Jewish surgeon Dr. Sheila Nazarian found a cross on her chest and saw in it the Christians who have stood with her people.
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Ridvan Aydemir, known online as Apostate Prophet, went from devout Islam to atheism to Orthodox Christianity. Through it all, he has stood with Israel.
Teaching
Bishop J. C. Ryle taught that every Christian is a soldier from conversion to death. Why holiness means warfare, and why grace drives the fight.
Teaching
I offer the following brief history of ancient Israel and Judah as a way to help students of Biblical history, especially young people. It takes 6 minutes to read through the following 1,000 words covering Israel’s 4,000 year old history! In an age of short attention spans, it may be a helpful…
Exhortation
How can you be true to yourself if you don’t know yourself? Let’s analyze a situation from the New Testament showing the importance of loving people but not allowing love to blindside you about the reality of who they are as a culture generally. One of their very own prophets said, “Cretans are…
Exhortation
When people begin to take interest in Hebraica Veritas, or the recognition of the Hebrew language, the Jewishness of the Bible, and the history of Israel as the only correct way to understand and interpret the teachings of Moses, Jesus and the apostles, some end up asking themselves if they should…
Exhortation
Let’s face it, the Christianity of the developed world has failed to win the hearts and the minds of the people of the Western civilization. Only three decades ago the dividing line between what used to be the free world and the rest of the world, was clearly visible and tangibly defined.
Teaching
Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Yehudi, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'” [Zec 8:23 HNV] This prophecy clearly foretells the coming…