Tarheel Covenant Blog

I have written before on the subject of the conversion of the Jews ( here , here , and here ), so this post will rehash some material from t...

One of the stories which we best remember about the Prophet Elijah is his confrontation with the prophets of Baal (I Kings, chapter 18). The...

In the opening of the Bible, we read, " In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. the earth was without form and void, a...

In Matthew 21:5, Jesus refers to himself as "king," using  Zechariah 9:9. And, indeed, this is closely followed by the royal welco...

There are some traditional biblical texts that are used whenever the Christmas story is retold (I am writing this the day after Christmas). ...

Years ago, the pastor I had at that time told a story of one of his daughters, about 5 years old at the time. She customarily took an aftern...

I often hear people claim that the moral law of the Old Testament was only for Israel. Now, if we were talking about the ceremonial law, I...

" H e is unchangeable, and who can turn Him back? What He desires, that He does ."  - Job 23:13 Among American evangelicals, ...

In psychology, there is a concept known as "learned helplessness." It refers to people who experience criticism no matter what the...

The Watchtower Society (the corporate name of the Jehovah's Witnesses) claims that the kingdom of God is something that will appear in t...

Arminians have enshrined their doctrine of free will, making it the concept that trumps all others. Yet, it has no biblical basis. Ask the...

Question 45 of the Westminster Larger Catechism asks, How does Christ execute the office of a king? And answers it this way: " Christ...

In Psalm 148, an anonymous poet exhorts nature and all classes of men to praise Jehovah. I especially want to emphasize the last two verse...

" Behold, you are beautiful, My love,      behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves      behind your veil. Your hair is like a fl...

The doctrine that I hate most among those held by classic dispensationalists is their assertion that history consists of a series of attempt...

Before I start, I want to mention what a landmark this post is: Post number 300! When I first started this blog, I would never have imagined...

"I am God, and there is no other;      I am God, and there is none like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning      And from ancie...

My fourth biblical-theology paper.     David, son of Jesse, the second King of Israel, is the foremost character in the second half of I ...