General Articles

Jude’s Warning to the End-time Church

The book of Jude is a sobering reminder of the perilous spiritual conditions that would accompany the last days. Though brief, its warnings are weighty. Jude writes with urgency, contending earnestly for “the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (vs. 3),...

The Sharp Edge of the Word

There are moments in preaching when the Word of God feels confrontational. It presses. It exposes. It unsettles. Hebrews 4:12 indicates the nature of God’s word as being “quick, powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of...

Nothing Wavering: Dealing with Internal Instability

In the general epistle of James, we are told to “ask in faith, nothing wavering…For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed…a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.”  The picture James vividly illustrates is not of a...
Canaan and Conquest Part One

Canaan and Conquest Part One

What changed? This question, along with so many others, began to reverberate in my mind as I read through the account of Joshua and the Israelites crossing the Jordan River. What do I mean by this question? Well, for starters, lets compare two reports that involve the...

A Note on One Lost Lamb

A Note on One Lost Lamb

Luke 15:3-7 (KJV) 3  And he spake this parable unto them, saying, 4  What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5  And when...

Husbands Hindered in Prayer

Husbands Hindered in Prayer

Husbands, listen up! What would you think if I were to tell you that your prayers could be potentially “cut off” or “hewn down?” In other words, if prayer were like the planting of a tree and the ultimate goal was to produce fruit from that tree; what if all your...

God, Man, and the World

God, Man, and the World

The Cosmos and Man No one man since the beginning of the cosmos as known today is closer to an accurate understanding of purpose, reason, and position than was the first man known as Adam. The assumption could be made, although scripture does not reveal the subject,...

The Unsuitable Marriage: Part Two

The Unsuitable Marriage: Part Two

Jeremiah 2:20 (KJV) 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot. Many would view much of the Old Testament as harsh,...

The Unsuitable Marriage: Part One

The Unsuitable Marriage: Part One

Hosea 1:1-2 (KJV) 1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. 2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the...

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