This is the second half of an article looking at various figures of speech employed in the Bible. I looked at five of the main…
On who? Hermeneutics is simply the practice or discipline of interpretation. Biblical hermeneutics – which is what I discuss here – is about the basic…
Today is May the Fourth – and may it be with you! This date has now gone down in history as a commemoration of a…
Let me briefly define things here, then offer a few prefatory remarks. Simply put, iconoclasm – in a religious context – literally means “image-breaking”. It…
Whenever another horrible Islamic terrorist attack takes place – and these are now daily occurrences sadly – you will get various Christophobes and/or Islamophiles trying…
This is the conclusion to an article which looks at the issue of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites and various moral and religious…
OK, these are certainly some rather large topics that I am attempting to cover in a very short article. But it follows on from a…
The 21 chapters of the book of Judges can make for some rather depressing reading, but they are an important part of Israel’s story and…
All of God’s attributes are wonderful, incredible, adorable, phenomenal, and glorious. But so often I have to meditate on the matchless grace of God –…
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…
Sometimes Christians who seek to pass themselves off as the most spiritual and the most godly are often the most carnal and the most arrogant.…
The third book of the Pentateuch is one often ignored and overlooked by Christians, but it is an important part of God’s revelation to us.…
In an age where truth matters little, where image trumps substance, and where widespread ignorance in so many areas reigns supreme, it is not surprising…
In answer to the question found in my title, sadly there are some Christian leaders who certainly seem to think so. They seem to have…
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…
Beginning in the early 1980s, various political groups on the left, assisted by many religious groups on the left, started ignoring and resisting American immigration…
What does the Bible have to say about the issue of taxation? Should we pay taxes? If so, what rate of taxation should we pay?…
The last 16 books in the English Old Testament are made up of the prophetic writings: 4 major and 12 minor – so called because…
So what happens to marriage when believers get to heaven? The passage we are discussing here seems to tell us that it will become superfluous.…
Those faithfully reading through the Old Testament should be in the final three historical books, which appear just before the Wisdom literature (Job, Psalms, etc).…