If there ever was a metropolitan enigma, it is Jerusalem.  The “city of peace” has had more blood shed in her streets than any other city in history.  Yet God tells us in His Holy Scriptures that one day Jerusalem–the center of His universe–will be the fount from which peace will flow out to all […]

The Apostle Paul uses the expression “Our holy brethren?” in verse one of Hebrews 3.  There is only one kind of brethren relative to the Christian walk–the holy kind.  A professing Christian is either holy or unholy–a contender or a pretender.  True brethren serve one God–Jehovah.  The Word “one” is paramount in God’s spiritual world […]

God is predictable.  What He has written in the Bible was, is and will be exactly as He said it was, is and will be.  That is a surety.  However, there are times when He does things that, though Biblical, are not obviously so.  In such cases one must search the Scriptures diligently to find […]

In his attempt to persuade Jesus to sin, Satan tried everything, including making Him angry.  He went so far as to cast doubt on the heritage of the miraculously-conceived Man from Galilee Who, if He had been thin-skinned, might have reacted in a hostile manner.  This would be like someone doubting the true identity of […]

Was it, as is commonly believed, impossible for Jesus of Nazareth to sin while He walked the earth?  The answer has eternal significance for those who seek to spend eternity with Him in that it reveals what the salvation seeker must do in order to qualify for eternal life.  To answer that question we must […]

Was it possible for Jesus to sin while walking the earth as a human being?  Did He have special powers not available to all other people that made Him immune to Satan’s temptations?  Did the questions go even deeper than that?  For example, was He shielded from physical pain?  I noted this episode in a […]

In this series the Lord has revealed that, concerning things spiritual, appearance and reality are not always the same.  In fact, they are sometimes the exact opposites.  For example, long after the fact I learned that my childhood Sunday School teacher and the church’s head deacon was, during those years, having an affair with a […]

In the previous posting we learned that the vast majority of Christ’s original 70 disciples were DINOs (Disciples In Name Only).  They said all the right words and went through all the right motions, but in their hearts they did not “walk with Jesus”  (“walk as He walked”–1 Jn. 2:6).  The common title given to […]

“Is my name written in heaven” is a question every salvation seeker needs to ask him/herself periodically.  If that question was put to every church member on earth the answer would be a confident “Yes.”  Would God agree with them?  In this series we will look to Him for the answer to that question.  In […]

In Hebrews 2:1-4 the Apostle Paul encourages the Israelite converts to pay close attention to what the apostles had heard Jesus say and seen Him do which they wrote about and preached.  Paul says in 2:3 that if we do not heed the lessons they taught and obey what He said, that we would “neglect […]