Ephesians was written during Paul’s initial imprisonment in Rome. It was written at the same time as Colossians and was delivered to the respective congregations by the same man, Tychicus (Ephesians 6:21, Colossians 4:7). Of the 155 verses in Ephesians, 78 are repeated in identical or similar language in Colossians. While Paul spends much of…
Soon after this article hits your mailbox, a helpless baby girl is scheduled to be born to an unwed mother unequipped to raise her. A Christian family, known to many readers of this paper, is qualified and ready to adopt the baby and raise it as one of their own. This they have a deep…
Any time that a factory, or refinery, or mass transportation facility, or banking system, or even a major retail store shuts down, the lives of a certain number of people will be affected. When the government of a powerful nation is shut down, it may not only affect the lives of the citizens of that…
There was a noteworthy debate on February 4th of this year at The Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY, between Bill Nye, a well-known personality and proponent of the theory of evolution, and Ken Ham, a proponent of scientific research in light of the Bible, or “Creation Science.” Both of these men conducted themselves as gentlemen…
Outside of creation itself, the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ was perhaps the greatest series of events in the history of mankind based on its effect upon man. Upon the historical facts and the many lessons we can learn from the resurrection hangs the very essence of the gospel of Christ and His…
John taught that God became a man: “the Word was God… And the Word became flesh” (John 1:1, 14). When did the Word become flesh? “Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a…
Editor’s Note: Brother Dennis submitted this article as one possible interpretation of the passages he explores. Your editor has included the article not as an endorsement of Brother Dennis’s interpretation, but as an interpretation worthy of consideration. Your editor encourages the reader to study the matter further. We read in Romans 11:26, “And so all…
Editor’s Note: Brother Dennis submitted this article as one possible interpretation of the passages he explores. Your editor has included the article not as an endorsement of Brother Dennis’s interpretation, but as an interpretation worthy of consideration. Your editor encourages the reader to study the matter further. We read in Romans 11:26, “And so all…
I was recently asked a question that I found to be very interesting: “What does the Bible say about Doctors?” which really was directed to a more pointed question, “Is it okay to use doctors, or should God alone be trusted to fix us when our physical bodies fail?” This is a fair question that…
Then Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said: “O LORD God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth” (2 Kings 19:15). God revealed His will for the children of Israel at Mount Sinai. Through Moses,…