As with so many of the passages I deal with in this series, this particular verse is not so much difficult as it is badly…
Jeremiah is one of the most well-known and most-read prophets, and for good reason. His persistence in proclaiming the whole counsel of God, even in…
Isaiah is the first of the major prophets and one of the most important. His ministry took place before the Babylonian exile of 587 B.C.…
The book of Proverbs contains 31 chapters, the first nine of which clearly make up a self-contained unit, serving as an introduction to the rest…
The 150 psalms found in the book of Psalms may be among the more well-known parts of the Old Testament by most Christians today. While…
The Bible the Christian reads contains two Testaments and 66 books. The Old Testament contains 39 books while the New Testament has 27 books. That…
Charisma House, 2018. Anything that is good and of God will be abused, misused and counterfeited. In addition to the Bible we have two thousand…
If you have been faithfully reading your three and a bit chapters of Scripture a day to get through the Bible in a year, beginning…
In my continuing series on Bible study helps, designed especially for those who have committed to read the Bible through in a year, beginning on…
Some of you have taken up my challenge to use the New Year to begin serious reading of the Bible. Because many of you have…
This may seem like an odd issue to write about, but some of you may have had a few questions about all this now and…
When I first saw this hit piece I yawned and returned to my bowl of Corn Flakes. Ho-hum, yet another tired, lame case of theological…
I could have entitled this article, “Do Christian women today need to wear head coverings?” For that in good measure is what this particular passage…
This passage can seem to be rather jarring. That is, it does not appear to fit in with what we know about basic Christian teaching.…
These two rather similar verses are not so much difficult passages as ones that can be easily misused. I have had people tell me for…
In Leviticus 10:1-3 we find the story of the death of Nadab and Abihu, which is puzzling and troubling to many contemporary believers. God struck…
Is this in fact a difficult passage? Well, not so much – the difficulty arises when it is rather misused and abused by various believers…
In this series I have dealt with not only verses which can be difficult to understand and interpret, but verses which are simply often abused…
This is another one of those biblical texts which is not so difficult as it is one which is so widely and so often misused…
I was recently asked what I thought of a piece arguing that life only happens at the first breath, and that abortion is therefore just…