Do you hear Jesus Christ preached? How? Prophecy explains the Messiah in terms of a suffering servant, but also a conquering king. These two depictions of the Messiah stand in stark contrast. Neither of them is how we know Christ today. We cannot preach Christ as the suffering servant now because he is now resurrected […]

During the Reformation, preachers decried indulgences: the Roman Catholic teaching that you could reduce your punishment in purgatory through gifts to the church. The issue was doctrinal. Those who knew it was wrong didn’t pay. Many learned of the error from the warning. In the 20th century, Bible preachers decried fraudulent Pentecostal televangelists who promised […]

Visitor: “We like listening to [name removed]. He rightly divides, but he sometimes mixes Peter with Paul.” Me: “That’s called wrongly dividing.” Obviously, “rightly dividing” does not mean the same to everyone. Mixing Peter and Paul’s ministries would not be Pauline right division. This is wrongly dividing. Giving the church Israel’s position, walk, destiny, or […]

“I don’t see how it is relevant to my everyday life?” A common reason people think the word of God is irrelevant to their everyday life is because they use a different vocabulary. The Bible uses words like sin, peace, joy, and righteousness, which are not part of everyone’s vocabulary. One might say in 2021, […]

“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” – 1 Cor 3:17 This verse is difficult, and not just for you and me. It is difficult because it is written by the apostle of grace, who elsewhere speaks plainly about […]