Suppose a Christian is driving his car, and in a moment of frustrated road rage, he cusses out another driver. Then while he was not paying attention, he gets in an accident and dies on the spot. So he never got a chance to confess his sin to God. He never got a chance to…
It is the unequivocal teaching of scriptures like Eph. 2:8,9 and Rom. 6:23 that salvation is a gift which is not contingent on faith and works, but faith alone, resulting in good works. Good works performed after salvation determines our reward in heaven, not our eventual presence there. Holiness is necessary to maintain personal fellowship…
There is a lot of misunderstanding of what is a Christian, or what is Christianity. In the US, there is a fierce debate over LGBT rights and religious liberty. LGBT sympathizers are militantly opposed to conservative Christianity, which they think is responsible for discriminating against them in the past. On the other hand, they love…
Evangelism Explosion (a program founded by the late Dr. James Kennedy) asks two crucial questions. 1) Do you know for sure (100%) that if you died today, you would spend eternity with God in heaven? 2) Suppose you died, and God asked you, “Why should I let you spend eternity with me?”, how would you…
God’s grace is one of the most fundamental doctrines of Christianity. Without God’s grace, Christianity does not even exist. Yet I am amazed how many Christians do not understand this most fundamental concept. I once heard a Christian lady talk about how hard it is for a Christian to go to heaven. According to her,…
On the sermon on the mount (Matthew 5), Jesus stated that He did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. Law keeping “Christians” latch on to this and they attempt to put their bondage on other Christians. They tell you that Christians are supposed to keep the Old Testament law otherwise you…
There are many Old Testament scriptures which are mind boggling to New Testament (NT) believers. For example, Exodus 23:19 commands chefs not to boil a goat in its mother’s milk. What does that even mean, and what does it have to do with us today? Dispensationalists believe that many of those Old Testament scriptures no…
There are many well meaning sincere believers who still observe the food laws of the Old Testament. Certainly they are not in sin and there may be real health benefits to such a practice. But are believers required to do likewise and are those food laws still expressions of holiness before God? God’s original design…
A recent documentary, The Lost Tomb of Jesus, aired on the Discovery Channel (March 4, 2007) claims that archeologists have discovered a burial cave in Jerusalem which contains the bones of Jesus, his wife and his son. It appears to be a family burial cave with an inscription of six names, including Jesus son of…
Revelation 3:7 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; The key of David (Rev. 3:7) is an Old Testament allusion…