GOD’S TESTAMENTS The Old Testament’s relationship to the New Testament, and the implications its law has for Christian living today are important and sometimes controversial subjects that have profound impacts on how Christians understand their identity in Christ. Unfortunately, we sometimes fail to properly explore these issues and simply default to whatever answer is most …
The Blood of Jesus: 1st John 1:7
Verse 7: The Blood of Jesus 7 If we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. This verse continues unfolding John’s topic of “life” and “fellowship” and completes his paradigm of “light and …
Christmas Gifts
With Christmas Trees all decked in splendor, houses lit from tip to top, and Santa coming soon, what are the many gifts of Christmas? Well, I assure you, as jolly a demeanor as good ole Saint Nicholas portrays, the toys for all the little "tots" he bears are, indeed, not the many gifts of Christmas. Not …
The Gospel: Salvation and Hope
The Gospel Declared The gospel has been heralded for many ages in God’s Word and it has been the summation of His revealed will since the beginning. With extreme specificity God declared through His prophet Micah His word saying, “‘But as for you, Bethlehem Ephrathah (lower Bethlehem), Too little to be among the clans of …