Articles

• Should You “Obey” Your Pastor?

  If your spiritual leaders told you to jump off the roof of a building, should you do it? Of course not. If they instructed you to do something immoral, should you do it? Clearly not.

• Can Christians Drink Alcoholic Beverages?

  Drinking an alcoholic beverage is not a sin in and of itself. But it can be a sin – or, at least, unwise – for certain people or in certain environments, not to mention anything done without moderation becomes negative by default.

• What Does “Shake the Dust off Your Feet” Mean?

  The Lord encouraged his disciples in these cases to make a judgment concerning the fruit of the people to whom they were ministering.

• What Does Love “Always Protects” Mean?

  I occasionally hear preachers erroneously proclaim that the heart itself is “desperately wicked,” quoting Jeremiah 17:9, but this simply isn’t true and Jesus Christ himself disagreed with it, as shown above in Luke 6:45.

• Handling Personal Offenses vs. Handling Criminal Acts

  There’s a huge difference between dealing with personal offenses as opposed to dealing with severe criminal acts. The former is a matter of peace between people in the Church, as well as society (relatives, co-workers, neighbors, etc.), whereas the latter is a matter of acquiring justice and protecting the populace from wicked thugs.

• What Does “SALTED WITH FIRE” Mean in Mark 9:49?

  This brings us to the last two verses of the chapter, which are more ambiguous than the preceding seven verses. You see, sometimes Christ was intentionally ambiguous, which compels people to seek out answers in their studies and relationship with the LORD.

• Does the Bible Say the Earth is Flat or Spherical?

  The Earth is not flat as flat-earthers claim and the Bible does not support this theory. The curious flat earth position can be refuted on both natural and biblical grounds.

• Insights on Evangelism, aka “Witnessing”

  Most people think evangelism only involves sharing the message of Christ and encouraging a person to say the sinner’s prayer, but—as wonderful as those may be—witnessing involves much more.

• Is Christianity a “RELATIONSHIP With God”?

  We’ve all heard it said that “Christianity is a relationship with God, not a religion.” Is this true? If so, what is the support for it in the Holy Scriptures, God’s blueprint for authentic Christianity?

• Why did Christ decline to give “Signs on Demand”?

  Matthew’s parallel account reveals that these “others” were the Pharisees and teachers of the law (Matthew 12:38). Apparently exorcising an evil spirit wasn’t good enough for them; they wanted a miraculous sign of cosmological scope, like the rearranging of the stars.