Question: In Matthew 2:23 it is written that Joseph was told in a dream to go to Galilee and live in the town of Nazareth just as the prophets said that he will be called a Nazarene. I have heard that...
Who’s on the throne? Of course the Lord God is the one on the throne (Judges 21:25; 1 Samuel 8:7; Revelation 19:16)! There’s never been a time when the universe has been left untended, so ...
Question: Why is the cleansing of the temple at the beginning of John and at the end of the synoptics? What were John’s motivations for placing it earlier? How do you harmonize the different g...
Members, membership, & dismemberment (?) We’re all baptized into the body of Christ, the church universal (1 Corinthians 12:13). Yet our membership has a local expression (Acts 2:41) —...
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Two churches? Last week, we examined ekklesia, the Greek word unfortunately rendered “church.” This is sad because its basic meaning is assembly, thus stressing the need to be there —...
Have you been stuck each morning wondering what to read in the Bible? Perhaps you’ve opened your Bible on a windy day, hoping the pages turn themselves to the right scripture. Maybe you started readin...
Ekklesia The Greek word ekklesia means assembly. It’s pronounced “eck-lay-SEE-ah.” The verbal form, egkalein, means to summon or call forth [e.g. to the assembly]. The Romans changed...
Question: What do gravitational waves teach us about creation? Answer: This is a good question. I answered a similar question two years ago about the discovery of the Higgs boson, also known as th...
The Purpose of Immersion References to baptism in the patristic literature abound. It is clear that for the first few centuries everyone was in agreement that baptism was for the forgiveness of sins, ...