There is no question that the word “love” is one of the most misunderstood, mangled and abused words going around today – at least in…
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…
The main difficulty with this passage is that it is another text which has been utterly mangled by those who seem to delight in twisting…
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…
Whenever Scripture discusses end times scenarios we must take great care. Much of the apocalyptic genre as found in Daniel and Revelation can be laden…
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…
The main difficulty about the last portion of this verse is pretty evident: Jesus tells us here not to do something which is done repeatedly…
Once again, as is often the case in this series, this passage is not so much difficult and hard to understand, as it is so…
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…
The last half of James 2:13 says this: “Mercy triumphs over judgment”. This passage is not so much a difficult passage as it is one…
I have included this passage of Scripture in my series of difficult Bible texts not so much because it is quite difficult to grasp or…
There are two main reasons why this passage is problematic: it seems to forbid something which is done elsewhere in Scripture, and it offers a…
This is a passage which bothers many folks – both believers and non-believers. It seems to make God the author of evil, or at least…
There is no way of hiding the fact that there is plenty of suffering in the world. And yet, we know that there is also…
There are some vital biblical truths which are so utterly essential and important, that there is no problem in repeating them over and over again.…
Christians should of course have as a primary goal to be more godly, to be more like our Lord. We should seek to emulate, imitate,…
This is another Bible passage which is not so much difficult as one which has been badly handled, poorly interpreted, and often wrongly applied. The…
This passage as such is not so problematic – it only becomes so when one realises what Jesus is quoting from. He seems to cite…
The trouble with so much of Christian preaching today is we are getting many people up for a big fall. We are giving folks a…