Does Matthew 10:28 refer to Satan or to God? In this passage we find Jesus saying the following: “And do not fear those who kill the…
Many folks share rubbish on the web, claiming they ‘researched it’ – um, not always! It has always been very difficult for most folks to…
OK, I have finally done it – I have penned a piece on tattoos! I have long put off writing a piece on this for…
In 1890 William Booth, the English minister and founder of the Salvation Army, wrote a book called In Darkest England and the Way Out. It…
All sixty-six books of the Bible are vitally important reading for the Christian of course, and in this series I have looked at all of…
The fourth book of the Pentateuch is directly related to the books preceding it and following it. In Exodus God delivers the Israelites from Egyptian…
One might think that the land of country music and the Grand Ole Opry has little to do with the land of Erasmus and Rembrandt.…
The 66th and final book of the Bible is also the most mysterious and enigmatic of them all. Also called the Apocalypse, it has three…
OK, in what has now become an irregular series, with an admittedly odd number of titles, here is another list of some recent books on…
Three more of Paul’s 13 epistles are covered here. Of interest, they give us what may well be the first and last of his writings.…
As mentioned in this series, all up the Apostle Paul wrote 13 canonical letters, making up almost half of the New Testament. These are two…
Eerdmans, 2018. The newest volume in the excellent Pillar New Testament Commentary series is another first-rate effort. The American New Testament professor has already done…
The Apostle Paul is a major figure in the New Testament. He is the author of 13 of the 29 books found in the New…
The first three gospels – Matthew, Mark and Luke – are known as the synoptic gospels, and they share a number of similarities. However, the…
As always, Christians must think carefully, clearly, and above all biblically, about all things. We must use our minds for the glory of God as…
Various introductory matters were laid out in Part 1 of this article. If you have not yet read it, I urge you to do so…
In this third of a four-part article I look further at issues of textual criticism, translation theory, pros and cons about manuscript types and translations,…
Christianity is Christ, and when we get Christ wrong we get Christianity wrong. Anything as important as getting right who Jesus is and what he…
In Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign he used the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.” That economics is important is true, but it is far from…
This is a passage which is problematic because of various strong views associated with it. So it might be better referred to as a contentious…