Have you ever heard someone rattle off Constitutional amendments from memory? Apparently, they think knowing their rights is useful for their exercise of them. Anyone that maintains a yard has at least a dozen tools in a shed or garage somewhere. They can probably recall the tools by name (and brand), explain how to use […]

It is a common thing for people to go to a church building to find God. It is far less common to understand that God does not dwell in a building. You cannot find God in a church building any more than you can find William Shakespeare in your local library. Your library may be […]

The gospel of salvation is the gospel of the grace of God. If the gospel is of grace, then it is no more of works (Rom 11:6). The grace part consists of the work Christ performed by the cross on your behalf. You did not perform at all. Salvation is not of works. The gospel […]

How would an outsider describe what goes on in the average church? What do most churches do? Most any church has common elements like a sanctuary or building, baptism, Lord’s supper, priests, penance, prayers, anointing, tithing, etc. It’s time we reconsider what most churches do in light of the Bible rightly divided. This series of […]

Doctrine is that which is taught as true. In Romans 2, Paul speaks to a Jew and describes them as having a form of doctrine. “Behold, thou art called a Jew…which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.” – Rom 2:17, 20 In Romans 6, Paul speaks to the sinner […]