Parable: a short, simple tale based on familiar things that is meant to convey a moral or religious lesson–Webster’s Concise Dictionary of the English Language.  Why did Jesus use parables when talking to the masses of people who often followed Him as He traveled from place to place?  Not long ago I heard a minister […]

The title of this series reflects the most often asked question I hear.  Why, people want to know, are there so many confusing contradictions in the Book Jesus called God’s “Truth” (Jn. 17:17)?  How can Truth be contradictory?  Why is God’s Word so confusing?  A good explanation of why there is much confusion and seeming […]

After each sin-caused outpouring of God’s wrath on the United State there are those, normally the most publicly known leaders within professing Christendom, who routinely call the nation “… back to her Biblical roots.”  Which is a legitimate demand from God Who states it time and again through His “holy men of old” who spoke […]

As I have pointed out in past postings, one of the major deceits Satan has perpetrated on the Institutional Church is the “truth” that if a religious person or a religious organization is being used by the Lord in a positive way, that person or organization is undoubtedly one with Him and right in His […]

In Acts 1:3-5 we find that Jesus, having returned from heaven where He had been since His resurrection from the dead, has been meeting with His disciples for 40 days during which time He spoke to them “concerning the things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.”  The kingdom message had been his focus during His […]

In the Garden of Eden the Serpent (Satan) successfully deceived the entire human race existing at that time.  Throughout history he has managed to maintain rulership over all but a tiny group of people whom God calls His “elect,” His “remnant,” his “little flock,” His “saints” (holy ones), His “peculiar treasures,” His “jewels.”  These scattered […]

In the focal passage (1 Pet. 4:12-19) the Apostle Peter tells us to expect persecution, rejection, etc. from religious people because we serve the Lord according to His written Word and they do not.  We are to rejoice and not flinch when family, friends and acquaintences reject us for turning our backs on their religion, […]

Before deciding to obey God’s command to work out one’s own salvation one needs to examine the lives of people before and after they came in contact with Jesus of Nazareth.  Before being called to serve their God, the Old Testament prophets were herdsmen, fruit pickers, farmers, etc. living conventional lives at peace with their […]

We who have been in Catholicism/Protestantism any length of time have been assured many times that those in “THE” church who have died are now in heaven and that those who will die in the future will immediately join them.  If it is God’s will for those in the church to be with Him in […]

In the Apostle Paul’s letter to God’s church at Philippi he delivers a message from the Lord that Satan has used with ultimate success to move salvation seekers off of God’s track and onto his: “Wherefore my beloved, AS YOU HAVE ALWAYS OBEYED (God’s Word), not only in my presence, but much more in my […]