The word grace is thrown around like confetti these days. This is a common knee jerk reaction to legalism. If there is a label for Christians that remains as unpopular as kale at a Baptist potluck, it is the term “legalist”. No one wants to be the dreaded L-word, so grace, grace, grace is the […]

Most of the Bible speaks about Israel. The Old Testament books are about their fathers, founding, law, history, prophets, fall, captivity, and return. In the New Testament books, Jesus comes to the “lost sheep of the house of Israel” and declares “salvation is of the Jews”. Revelation describes the restoration of the kingdom to Israel […]

Romans 3:22 and Galatians 2:16 have been studied for a long time by those in ivory towers to determine the meaning of the “faith of Jesus Christ”. What is not among the leading answers is the wrongheaded idea that Jesus needed to have faith like we have faith. Is Jesus faithful? Yes. Do we need […]

Our country changed forever twenty years ago today. You may remember where you were at on 9/11/2001. Some of you may remember how the country changed forever on November 22, 1963. If you were too young for all that, then you will always remember the year our country changed forever because of something called COVID. […]

Do you know how many covenants God gives in the Bible? You might be aware of the two popular ones because of the way the Bible is divided. There are more. Don’t believe me? Make your own list of God’s covenants. Prophecy is full of them. It is good to know the obligations into which […]