Have you checked the mirror lately and seen those wrinkles forming on your forehead? We might like to think of them as evidence of the wisdom we have gained over the years, but the truth is that they are far more likely to be just the evidence of the years themselves! It is amazing how ancient cultures used that part of the…

The crowd would have been larger last Saturday when 20,000 people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D. C. in support of atheism had it not rained. Some of the speakers were absent but still sent videos to support the effort to mock Christianity. Speakers included Bill Maher, Adam Savage (co-host of Mythbusters) and David Silverman (president of American Atheists). Silverman…

The importance of verbal inspiration of the Bible can hardly be over emphasized. When God revealed His message to mankind, He did it by ensuring that every word in that message precisely expressed His thoughts. Think about how He “verbally inspired” every word on the tablets of stone at Mt. Sinai. His finger chose every word and wrote every letter. A question…

There is an attitude in our society toward religion that they are all pretty much the same. Once this concept is embraced, the door is open for each of us to make choices which best suit our own lifestyles. This really makes it easy, but it may be too easy! The concept that “one is about as good as another” just does…

We know the parable of the men who were given money to be used while their master was away. Each of them doubled the money given to them except for the last one, who, while protecting the money he received, did nothing with it. We may have overlooked what happened to his unused money. It was taken and given to one of…

It is not likely that we spend a lot of time thinking about how translations of the Bible are related to the concept of its verbal inspiration, but perhaps we should. It might help us in making a decision about what Bible we purchase and which one we use in our study. To do this, we must clearly understand what the terms…

So they came to Jesus to ask for a sign. He had already turned water to wine, healed every sick person brought to Him, fed the multitudes on two occasions and spoken life changing words. Yet, they were not satisfied. What more could God do to show the authenticity of Jesus and the new covenant He was revealing? His answer was, “No…

Most everyone understands those if/then kinds of statements. It is a sentence which begins with the word if, then it states an action and ends with the consequence of that action. What child has not heard a parent say, “If you ever do that again, then . . .”? What dating couple has not had as part of their conversation, “If you…