Archives

• When Did Paul Return to Jerusalem?
• Why is Paul’s Conversion so Important?
• Yet Another Contradiction in Damascus?
• Do We Rescue Luke at Paul’s Expense?
• Does Paul Contradict Luke in Damascus?
• Luke vs. Paul – Truth or Confusion
• Paul’s Vision on the Road to Damascus
• Was Paul Converted or Called?
• Is Suffering a Sign of Divine Favor?
• Why Doesn’t God Heal Amputees?
• Prayer in Jesus’ Name
• Thousands and Thousands of Errors!
• To Whom Did Mark Write his Gospel?
• Three Blind Nights
• The Wolf Shall Dwell with the Lamb
• The Wrath of Saul
• Saul and the Persecution
• Whose is Mark’s Gospel?
• Saul’s Conversion & the Body of Christ
• Who Wrote Mark’s Gospel?
• The Ethiopian Eunuch and the Body of Christ
• Mark and the Other Synoptics
• Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch
• Did Everyone Copy Mark?
• The Samaritan Pentecost
• Simon the Great One!
• Samaria Believes!
• The Samaritan ~ The Great Pretender
• The Reluctant Evangelists
• Who Were Scattered Abroad?
• The Great Persecution
• The First to Die for Christ
• The Tenth Temptation of God
• The Tent of Witness
• The Prophet Like Moses and Worship
• The Prophet Like Moses ~ Savior
• The Prophet Like Moses ~ His Rejection
• The Prophet Like Moses ~ His Coming
• Blasphemy Against God and Moses!
• The Stephen Conspiracy
• Who Were the Seven?
• The Structure of the Book of Acts ~ Part 3
• The Structure of the Book of Acts ~ Part 2
• The Structure of the Book of Acts ~ Part 1
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place!
• The Gospel Cannot be Bound!
• The Enemy Retaliates!
• Discerning Between Holy and Common
• The Son of Consolation
• Setting Dates Sells Books!
• Authority But Not “Our” Authority
• The Union of Jews and Gentiles
• The Builders and the Stone
• Jesus is Alive and Here’s the Proof!
• The Blunder of the Powerful
• Lame Man Walking!
• The Conclusion of the First Pentecost
• Jesus Is Lord of All!
• The Day of the Lord
• Speaking in Tongues
• The Coming of the Kingdom of God
• A Theme for Acts
• Who is the Author of Acts & Luke?
• Image of the Beast & the 7 Sons of Sceva ~ Part 3
• Image of the Beast & the 7 Sons of Sceva ~ Part 2
• Image of the Beast & The 7 Sons of Sceva ~ Part 1
• Who or What is Antichrist?
• Mark of the Beast – Part 2
• The Mouth of the Beast
• Gospel to Be Preached in All the World
• The Apocalyptic Coming of Jesus
• Jesus’ Coming in 70 CE
• Can the Great Tribulation be Shortened?
• This Generation Revisited
• Antichrist & Great Signs and Wonders
• Jesus’ Coming and Paul
• As Lightening Comes out of the East
• What Does the Olivet Prophecy Answer?
• Then shall be Great Tribulation
• Jerusalem Surrounded by Armies
• Delivered up to be Persecuted and Killed
• The Beginning of Sorrows
• The Olivet Prophecy
• No Man Knows the Day or the Hour!
• A Sure Word of Prophecy?
• The Number of the Beast ~ 666
• Feeding the 5000
• Jesus—the Bread of Life
• Jesus—Feeding the Hungry
• What’s Left, If We Don’t Have Jesus?
• When is Enough, Enough?
• The Two Resurrections
• Bethesda and the Five Porches
• The Man at the Pool and the Promised Land
• Jesus is Alive!
• Ancient Jewish Literacy Revisited
• Another Look at Ancient Literacy Rates
• Will You Be Made Whole?
• A Prophet Without Honor
• Who is the Man of Sin? ~ Part 3
• Who is the Man of Sin? ~ Part 2
• Who is the Man of Sin? ~ Part 1
• Worship in Spirit ~ Worship in Truth
• Inspired—But not Without Error!
• The Promise of the Father
• Demythologizing the New Testament
• Dating the New Testament
• Fallen Women and Jesus
• How Secret are our Thoughts?
• You Are What You Eat
• Did Mary Believe in Jesus’ Ministry?
• Was John the Baptist Literally Elijah?
• Is John Least in the Kingdom of God?
• Did John the Baptist’s Ministry Fail?
• Paul—The Apostle Shaped in Cilicia
• An Appointment with Destiny
• Paul’s Initial (Un)Success
• Removing the Barriers
• Saul in Damascus
• God Desires Worship!
• Paul’s Conversion
• Worship in the Spirit and in Truth
• Paul on the Damascus Road
• The Atypical… Jesus!
• Saul the Persecutor of the Way
• The Imprisonment of John
• Persecution Over Blasphemy!
• Jesus Versus John
• The Beginning of Messianic Persecution
• Christian Graffiti
• The Gift of Life from the Murdered One!
• Background for Saul of Tarsus
• The End of Apostolic Authority in Jerusalem
• Who Were the Men From James?
• God’s Love Fleshed out in Jesus
• The Persecution Under Agrippa I
• Do We Know Jesus?
• The Apostles Were Persecuted for Treason
• Jesus Must Be Lifted Up
• A Judas Contradiction?
• The Importance of the Whole Truth
• “Life Is Queer with its Twists and Turns”
• We were Called Christians First in Antioch!
• Who Was Paul of Tarsus, Really?
• You Must Be Born Again!
• When Did Paul Confront Peter in Antioch?
• How Not to Become a Christian
• Paul Moves to Antioch!
• Commercializing God
• The Gospel Goes to the Gentiles
• Jesus Cleanses the Temple
• A Chronology of Acts 8 through 12
• Marriage at Cana
• The Eight Silent Years of Paul
• Jesus’ First Disciples
• Why Did Paul Go to Tarsus?
• Behold the Lamb of God!
• What did Peter and Paul Discuss?
• The One… Whom You do not Know!
• Paul’s Visit to Jerusalem
• John’s Testimony of Astonishment!
• Jerusalem knew nothing of Paul!
• John’s Confession!
• Paul’s Flight from Damascus
• The Ministry of John the Baptist
• Paul and the Doctrine of Circumcision
• Jesus Has Shown Us What God Is Like!
• Paul’s Theology and the Children of Abraham
• Grace and Truth Came Through Jesus
• Paul’s Soul Searching in Arabia
• God WITH Us!
• How Long Did Paul Persecute Believers?
• He Pitched his Tent with us!
• Was Paul a Member of the Sanhedrin?
• Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?
• When did Paul go to Damascus?
• Jesus’ Life is the Light of Men!
• Can God be Subject to God?
• Who is the Word, and is it Important?
• My God, Why Have You Forsaken me?
• Jesus Was Afraid?
• Jesus’ Will v/s God’s Will?
• The Father is Greater than I!
• God’s Son ~ Jesus!
• The Man, Christ Jesus!
• One Lord ~ Jesus Christ
• Fixing the Date of Stephen’s Death
• The First Split in the Church was Friendly!
• The Matter of False Brethren
• Having All Things in Common
• What Do the Thousands of New Believers Imply?
• Chronology of Acts One Through Seven
• Demons and the Dry Places
• Simon the Sorcerer & the Soothsayer
• The Demon Called ‘Legion’
• Balaam & the Witch of Endor
• Demons ~ Metaphors or Living Beings?
• Demons ~ Corrupt Spiritualism?
• Who or What Are Demons?
• Why the Silence?
• Three Trips to Jerusalem
• How Did You Come to Know Jesus?
• Silent Night
• Jesus’ Roots!
• God’s Love Letter to You!
• The King Born in a Stable!
• Immanuel—God with Us!
• Fleshing Out the Invisible God!
• Jesus Came to an Unprepaired Nation!
• The Shepherds’ Rumor Ends in Tragedy
• The World Census of Caesar Augustus
• The ‘Virgin Births’ of Other Faiths
• The Price of Obedience
• Did the Jews Expect the Virgin Birth?
• Jesus ~ Born of a Virgin or a Young Girl?
• Behold the Handmaid of the Lord!
• Should We Celebrate “Christmas”?
• Is it True Elijah Went to Heaven?
• Is it True that Enoch Never Died?
• To Anoint the Most Holy
• To Seal up the Vision and the Prophecy
• To Bring in Everlasting Righteousness
• Make Reconciliation for Iniquity
• To Make an End of Sins
• Rebellion and the Sin Principle
• To Finish the Transgression
• Paul, ‘Kicking Against the Goads’
• Monotheism v/s Polytheism
• Revelations from the Cross
• What Is Truth?
• Jesus ~ Yahweh ~ I AM…
• Seeing God’s Glory
• Where is God?
• What is the Purpose of the Christian Life?
• Can We See God?
• Suffering, Time and God’s Omniscience
• Why Doesn’t God Prevent Some Suffering?
• The Problem of Suffering
• The Woman Caught in Adultery!
• Does a True Gift Have Strings?
• The Voice of God Gets Through
• No One Has Ever Seen God!
• Mercy and Truth Came to us by Jesus
• Jesus—The Fullness of God!
• Jesus Existed Before John!
• God Was Manifest in the Flesh
• And God Became Man!
• How Can Darkness Comprehend Light?
• The True Light Was Coming
• If One’s Light is Darkness…
• Is Jesus Truly God?
• The Bacchae – Christianity and the Enlightenment
• The Bacchae – The Jews and the Greeks
• Jesus and Dionysus
• Jesus and Gautama—the Buddha
• Jesus and Zoroastrianism
• Jesus and Horus
• Jesus and Attis
• Jesus and Krishna
• Christianity and the Ebionites
• The New Testament and Syncretism
• Jesus, the Mithras and December 25th
• Christianity Copied Mithraism?
• Jesus—The Image of God…Part Two
• Jesus—The Image of God…Part One
• Were Most Ancient Jews Illiterate?
• Concerning the Primacy of Mark
• Modern ‘Oral Tradition’ v/s the 1st Century CE
• Mark and the “Q” Document
• Modern Textual Criticism
• The Coming of Ezra
• God Sends in the Prophets
• Nehemiah’s Two Periods of Ministry
• “Even In Troublesome Times”
• Dating the Events of Ezra and Nehemiah
• Unlikely but True—The 490 Years Begin Here!
• The 70 Weeks Prophecy Begins When?
• Seventy Years of Babylonian Rule
• The Ancient Hebrew Calendar
• Who Was Claudius Ptolemy?
• Errors in Ancient Chronology!
• The Temple Was Rebuilt by whose Decree?
• The Apostle John and the End Times
• Peter’s Final Words!
• Differing Crucifixion Traditions
• Jesus Was Crucified on a Wednesday!
• How About a Thursday Crucifixion?
• A Friday Crucifixion?
• A Sabbath Day’s Journey and Jesus
• Jesus’ Triumphant Entry!
• Jesus’ Three Entries Into Jerusalem!
• A Chronology of Jesus’ Last Days!
• Peter’s Exhortation During the Persecution
• The End of All Things Is at Hand!
• Do We Really Trust Jesus?
• Caligula and Antiochus Epiphanes
• Which ‘Coming’ of Jesus?
• An Ancient ‘Who Done It?’
• A Widespread Trial of Faith
• The Resurrection at the Coming of Jesus
• The Great Conspiracy of the Last Days
• The End of the Age
• Modern “Oral Tradition” v/s the 1st Century CE
• When was the New Testament Written?
• Oral Culture and Chronology of the NT
• Spiritual Warfare in the End Times
• The Deceptiveness of the Prosperity Gospel
• Be Not Many Teachers
• The Gospel is not the Prosperity Gospel!
• Endurance is the Key to Victory!
• James—the Fiery Epistle from Jerusalem
• Who Wrote the Gospels?
• The Death of the Two Witnesses
• The Two Witnesses
• Who Are the Two Witnesses of Revelation?
• James–No Epistle of Straw!
• Mystery, Babylon the Great!
• The Mark of the Beast and 666
• The Mark of the Beast
• The Image of the Beast
• Who is the False Prophet of Revelation?
• The Little Horn of Daniel
• The First Three Persecutions of the Church
• Saved by Grace
• The Seven Headed Beast of Revelation
• The 10 Horns of the Beast
• Which End Times?
• Who is Luke’s Theophilus
• The Millennium and the First Resurrection
• The Millennium and the Bottomless Pit
• The Millennium and Reigning with Christ
• The Millennium and Binding Satan
• Does the Millennium Last for 1000 Years?
• What is the Millennium?
• The Only Begotten Son
• The Word Became Flesh
• The Light Shines in the Darkness
• In Him Was Life
• All Things Were Made by Him
• And the Word Was God
• And the Word Was with God
• In The Beginning Was the Word
• Jesus is the Image of God
• Jesus Stripped Himself of his Glory!
• Equality with God
• Jesus was in the Form of God
• The LORD Said Unto My Lord
• Can I Know Christ’s Life Dwells in Me?
• Do I Deal in Potential or the Past?
• Am I a Stepping Stone or a Stumbling Block?
• Taboo or not Taboo!
• Love—the Only Necessary Law!
• Is it God’s Will?
• Can You Trust God If He Wasn’t In Charge?
• How Can ALL Things Work Together for Good?
• How Do I Get Out of this Mess?
• Whose Slave are You?
• If I Could Only Choose…
• Real Faith Brings Practical Results
• The Faith I Have is the Faith I Show!
• Why Should I Become a Christian?
• The World Hates God Because of my Religion!
• Must a Christian Assassinate his Brain?
• Shouldn’t a Christian be Religious?
• The Virgin Birth Solves the Jeconiah Problem
• The Jeconiah Curse and the Virgin Birth
• They Shall not Learn War Anymore
• Messiah Was Expected to Atone for Sin
• Messiah Would Suffer and Die
• The Messiah Was to be a Divine Being!
• Messianic Expectations of the First Century CE
• Objections to Jesus as the Messiah
• Salvation Even for Me!
• Opening the Eyes of Unbelievers
• The Overwhelming Power of False Doctrine!
• Unbelief and Half-truths!
• Is the Gospel Believed, Perchance, by Chance?
• Why Seek the Living One among the Dead?
• Ages (plural) of Salvation!
• The Restoration of Sodom
• The ‘Firstfruits’ of What?
• The Restoration of All Things!
• The Three Trials of Jesus
• Blood Sacrifice – The Exception
• Reconsidering Two Matters
• David’s Example of Blood Atonement
• Can Atonement Come Without Blood Sacrifice?
• Can Money Buy Eternal Life?
• Does God Prefer Mercy… Over Blood Sacrifice?
• No Atonement Without Blood
• There Is No Escape
• There is None Righteous
• Original Sin
• Blood Ransom
• The New Man
• I Cannot Do What I Want
• Stand Fast in Liberty
• Until Christ Is Outwardly Expressed in You
• Have I, Your Friend, Become Your Enemy?
• Be as I Am For I Am as You Are
• The Promised Seed is Christ.
• Who are the Children of Abraham?
• How Can One Become Righteous?
• In Christ There Is Neither Jew nor Gentile
• Paul and Spiritual Warfare!
• Paul’s Gospel
• Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ!
• Paul’s Letter to the Galatians
• Was Josephus an Ebionite?
• Jonathan the High Priest—Twice?
• The Abomination of Desolation – The Way of Destruction
• The Abomination of Desolation
• When Was Stephen Stoned?
• Look Who Greeted the Coming of the Messiah!
• Luke’s Birth Account of Jesus
• Then the Church had Peace…
• The Angel’s Promise
• Theophilus and Zechariah—What was Luke’s Point?
• In the Bosom of Abraham
• Samuel’s Childhood—A Type of Christ!
• What Was the Sin of Eli’s Sons?
• Is Luke’s ‘Theophilus’ Really Matthias?
• Josephus’ Family and the New Testament
• Who is Theophilus?
• Paul Sails to Rome
• Paul’s Testimony Before King Agrippa!
• Paul—A Thorn in the Side of Festus!
• Paul Before Felix
• Paul Taken to Felix
• Paul in Jerusalem
• Did Paul Disobey the Holy Spirit?
• Winding Down Paul’s Third Missionary Journey
• The Seven Sons of Sceva – Part 2
• The Seven Sons of Sceva – Part 1
• Let the Name of Jesus be Magnified!
• Justification by Faith Alone!
• What was the School of Tyrannus?
• Paul in Ephesus
• Paul’s Third Missionary Journey
• Summing up Paul’s 2nd Missionary Journey
• What Was Paul’s Vow?
• Surprising Developments at Corinth
• The Cost of Taking Christ into the World
• To the Unknown God
• So, Why Isn’t There a Letter to the Bereans?
• Conflicting Birth Accounts in the Gospels?
• Herod’s Slaughter of the Innocents
• The Magi Found the Child in the HOUSE!
• The Coming of the Magi
• The Coming of Jesus
• The Birth of Jesus
• Fixing the Date of Herod’s Death-Part 3
• Fixing the Date of Herod’s Death-Part 2
• Fixing the Date of Herod’s Death-Part 1
• Daniel Brings us from Herod to Golgotha
• Scripture Foretold the Coming of Herod!
• Hey, It’s Christmas Time!
• Trouble in the Capital!
• Why Did Paul Pass by Some Cities?
• Spiritual Warfare!
• Was Luke the Pastor of the Philippian Church?
• Closed Doors and the Guidance of the Spirit
• Why Was Timothy Circumcised?
• A Possible Scenario for Paul’s Second Missionary Journey
• Barnabas and Paul
• Why Did Paul and Barnabas Separate?
• You Cannot Be Saved Unless…
• The Lord Testified to the Message of His Grace
• It is Impossible to Believe Without God!
• How Did the Gospel Spread so Rapidly?
• This Generation
• Matthew 24 and the Coming of Christ
• The Sign of Christ’s Parousia!
• Herod Agrippa and Revelation 13
• And Herod Killed James with the Sword!
• The Disciples Became Known as Christians
• God Repeats Himself
• Don’t Call Common What God Has Cleansed!
• God Brings an End to the Persecution
• Stephen’s Gospel Was Preached by Paul
• A Place for Liberals and Conservatives—Christ!
• After the 70 Weeks Prophecy—Then What?
• The Four Passovers in Jesus Public Ministry
• The 70 Weeks Prophecy and the 1335 DAYS
• The 70 Weeks Prophecy and the 1290 DAYS
• Daniel’s 70 Weeks Prophecy and the 1260 DAYS
• Daniel’s 70 Weeks Prophecy
• The Significance of Stephen’s Death!
• Murmuring Among the First Disciples
• Seasons of Refreshing
• “What Does This Mean?”
• It Shall Come to Pass in the Last Days…
• He Was Numbered with Us!
• Can We Know the Time of Christ’s Return?
• Eternal Generation and the Trinity!
• Jesus’ Fourth Open Claim to Deity!
• Jesus’ Third Open Claim to Deity
• Jesus’ Second Open Claim to Deity!
• Jesus’ First Open Claim to Deity!
• Did Jesus Ever Claim to be God?
• The Trouble with Making Jesus a Part of One’s Life!
• A Heart Full of Rocks!
• A Sensitive Heart for God
• The Targumists and the God and Savior of Israel
• The Word of the Lord in the Jewish Targums!
• Ancient Jewish Literature and the Godhead!
• Eve’s Messianic Expectations!
• Who Do You Say I Am?
• Your Sins are Forgiven!
• The “Power” of the Gospel Message!
• “Opportunity Lost”
• The Three Temptations of Christ
• Something Has Changed!
• The Call of Christ
• The Inner Authority
• The Violence of Inner and Outer Authorities
• Over Whom Does Jesus Have Authority?
• The Power in Authority
• Can the State Ever Legislate the Gospel?
• Does God Exist?
• The Authority of a Good Name
• So, What’s the Good News?
• Jesus Gave Himself…
• Betrayed With a Kiss!
• Judas’ Heart and Slandering Jesus!
• What Did Judas Expect to Gain by Betraying Jesus?
• The Futility of Serving Two Masters
• Serving Christ, Yet Living a Secret Life!
• Why does God focus so much attention on Himself?
• And I, if I be lifted up…
• The Prayer!
• All I Have Is Christ
• The Ground Is Level at the Cross!
• Am I Good Enough for Heaven?
• Is ‘Forever’ Never Ending?
• Unbelief: Too Heavy a ‘Rock’ for God to Lift?
• Who is God Able to Save?
• Is Destruction Everlasting?
• Can Unrepentance Be Forgiven?
• What Is the Lake of Fire
• Lazarus and the Rich Man
• When Will the Wrath of God Appear?
• Everlasting Punishment
• The Grace of God
• It is Christ, Only, and Him Crucified!
• What Is The Wrath of God
• Striving to Enter the Strait Gate
• The Three Tenses of Salvation
• What is the Kingdom of God Like?
• Are There Few Who Are Saved?
• Who Am I In Christ?
• Who Am I?
• Cooperative Effort Produces Eternal Results!
• Did God’s Original Plan Fail?
• Did Jesus Have To Die?
• Jesus Before Pilate
• Jesus Before the Sanhedrin
• Spiritual Sleep
• The Gethsemane
• Bearing Away Our Sins
• Praying Through Gethsemane
• The Christ of Contention
• Clean and Unclean
• The Subtlety of Adam
• Adam
• Satan and Adam
• Our Great God and Savior, Jesus Christ
• Is Jesus our Only Master or our Only Lord?
• Were We Purchased with God’s Blood?
• Jesus—The Firstborn of God
• Jesus—Creature or Creator?
• Jesus and Jehovah
• And The Word Was …divine!
• What Kind of God Is Jesus?
• The Devil, Called Satan, Unveiled
• Satan as the Serpent
• Is Satan an Archangel or an Angel?
• The Invincible, Omnipresent Satan
• God Almighty in Revelation Chapter 5!
• God Almighty in Revelation Chapter 4!
• Almighty God – Jesus!
• Almighty God – O.T.
• Who Appeared to Moses in the Bush?
• The Angel of the Lord
• The God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob
• The Sh’ma
• The Rock of Israel
• The Image of God
• “Just A Thought…”