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In his Catechism for the Church of Geneva (answer # 126), John Calvin wrote, " To believe in Christ is as much to say as to receive Chr...

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...

" In truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six month...

"Be as sensible of your deformity and unworthiness as you can, and walk humbly under the sense of it. But let it not slacken your pace ...

The Bible gives us accounts of several cases in which God interacts with Satan or Satan's demonic minions. For example, we read this sto...

"There will be degrees of the glory of eternal life and of the blessedness of perfected salvation. These degrees of bliss and glory wil...

"His own perfect work in Jesus Christ satisfies God. The one who believes only, declining to work for righteousness, comes to God lacki...

In the "Book of Mormon Student Manual," chapter 40, "The three days of darkness symbolized the death of Jesus Christ, who is ...

 In the Parable of the Great Banquet (Luke 14:12-24), we find this statement from the master of the house (representing Jesus): " Go ou...

As I am writing this, America is in the grip of chaos. America has been shaken by understandable protests over the police killings of black ...

Every Bible-believing Christian is distinguished by one doctrine: our justification before God is through fail alone. That was the message o...

There is a strange and controversial story found in John 7:53-8:11. In the story, the Pharisees bring to Jesus a woman who was caught in adu...

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

"The law must be applied with power to the conscience, or the preciousness of grace will be very inadequately known. The superficial pi...

"A penal death and a perfect righteousness imputed, the one for pardon and the other for acceptance - these are the things which make t...

In Luke 17:10, Jesus makes a surprising comment: " So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, [should] say, ‘We are...

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

My objection to classical apologetics is that its proponents believe in finding a common ground with their anti-Christian opponents. Part of...

In the book known by his name, the Patriarch Job tells a very sad tale. Starting with verse 6, he first tells us how God has opposed Himse...

I have a real problem with classical apologetics. That is for two main reasons. One is that they lead to a generic deity, not necessarily th...