John was on the Isle of Patmos, which is just off the coast of Miletus in the Aegean Sea. It was the Lord’s day, and he was given the revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ. The image of the Christ before him was different than the one he had come to love while in Jerusalem. It was different than the resurrected Christ…

Our world is so blinded by the teaching of many about the kingdom of God. It has always been this way. When Jesus was on this earth, many expected Him to establish a kingdom like those kingdoms they had known in the past and like those physical kingdoms in the first century world. Herod the Great did not understand the kingdom. His…

While we are no longer bound by the law of the Old Testament, God has provided those thirty-nine books “for our learning” and “for our admonition” (Rom. 15:4; 1 Cor. 10:11).  There is certainly much for us to learn and many warnings to heed.  When those instructions and warnings correspond with clear laws, principles and regulations from the New Testament, it further…

From time to time I read comments on atheist forums. I do it to see how they think, how they argue and see what the “latest” argument is. A very common theme is prayer. They have their tests and scientific studies that allegedly “debunk” prayer. It is really sad. They are like children trying to explain how electricity or radio waves work.…

In Bible times, birds were hunted and served as delicacies for food. There were skilled archers whose arrows took the lives of those birds that fled. Their only hope was to run from the places of safety and flee to the mountains where they might escape. The psalmist, in the eleventh psalm, saw all of this and then used this illustration to…

God spoke very clearly about homosexuality and same-sex marriage on the sixth day of this world’s existence, which happened to be the first day of man’s existence.  On the very day that God created humanity, He laid out His clear guidelines for human sexuality and marriage. In the first chapter of the Bible, God created and sanctioned the male-female relationship.  “God created…

Your family and you as an individual have decided that God will be the center of the home and your life. You have set Him as priority number one over all other things that would distract us from our end goal and obedience to Him. Now, what do you do? There is a passage that is set in the context of worry…

It is remarkable how easy it is to overlook how God has expressed great truths using some of the simplest language. When Paul wrote the Corinthians he used the expression “first of all.” We sometimes use this expression when we have a long list of things which are of equal importance. We talk of the first item, not because it has greater…