I played the trombone in my high school marching band. We had a uniform that we had to wear when we marched. It included maroon wool pants, a maroon and white wool double-breasted coat, white shoes and a hat. Our band director was very strict about our dress. Paul gives us a similar analogy in […]
A child dies at birth. A family’s house burns down. A tsunami wipes out an entire village. A work accident cripples a Christian husband/father. A loved one gets cancer and dies a slow, painful death. During hard times, you lose your job. Why does God allow bad things to happen? Very likely, we have all […]
We are social people. We live with people. We work with people. We interact with people. As a result, there are times that we conflict with people. Our sinful nature has a strong tendency to get upset with those who do not do live our way. This leads to social sins. Transition I want us […]
During our study of the Biblical worldview of God, we established that man is moral (i.e., man has an innate sense of right and wrong). Such morality must come from a moral Being who is the absolute authority. That Being must be God. While God created Adam and Eve innocent, He also gave them a […]
When I was in Bible College, one of the things that I feared was getting to class and having forgotten to do my assignment or having not remembered there was going to be a quiz. Being unprepared is a terrible feeling. Can you imagine how terrible it will be if you are unprepared to enter […]
As Christians, we need to have a biblical worldview of God, of the Bible’s truthfulness, of the Bible’s sufficiency, and of life. These are foundational to today’s topic, a biblical worldview of origins. The evolutionary theory that all things began billions of years ago, and slowly evolved into all the complexity that we find in […]
God allowed several of the Bible characters to get a glimpse of heaven or of God. Jacob, Genesis 28:12-13; Moses and elders, Exodus 24:9-10; Moses, Exodus 33:23; Micaiah, 2 Chronicles 18:18; Ezekiel, Ezekiel 1:26; Ezekiel 10:1; Daniel, Daniel 7:9; Stephen, Acts 7:55; Paul, 2 Corinthians 12:2; John, Revelation 1:12-16; Revelation 4:2. One that stands out […]
What is life? __ Oxford Dictionary, Life is “the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, states NASA’s operational definition of life as “a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution”. The National Library of Medicine […]
Have you ever been deceived? Fraud and scams are all around us these days. They come in the form of phone calls, false advertisements, deceitful labelling, etc. Some deceivers are so clever that it is difficult to detect their lies. The best way to detect a scam is to know the truth exceptionally well. Transition […]
Last week we examined the veracity of the Bible. We established that it is truthful and trustworthy. The Bible is a reliable collection of historical, instructional, and prophetical documents, inspired by God, written by eyewitnesses or from eyewitness accounts, during the lifetime of eyewitnesses, and confirmed by fulfilled prophecies, archaeology, and thousands of ancient manuscripts. […]