Faith

Salvation Requires Perseverance

Salvation Requires Perseverance

Understanding how salvation works is extremely important. Sadly, there’s much confusion and deception over this topic in Christianity today. I realize in an article of this length that I can’t possibly cover everything, but I hope merely to provide a biblically faithful, ...
Confidence in the Storms of Life

Confidence in the Storms of Life

Storms are not optional. Both saint and sinner suffer. We live in a fallen world with a spiritual adversary. As Christians, we  contend daily with our old nature. We suffer at times for doing wrong and at times for doing right. We are vulnerable to sickness, disease, and ...
Context

Context

During my undergraduate studies, there were many students in my dorm from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. My hometown was a small oil town in the Alleghany Mountains much north of Pittsburgh. There were clearly culture differences. One evening, I was using the pay phone located ...
Steadfast Love, Lovingkindness, Unchanging Love

Steadfast Love, Lovingkindness, Unchanging Love

The Hebrew word chesed in some Bibles is translated “lovingkindness” and in other versions “steadfast love”. In Micah 7:18 and 20, chesed was translated “unchanging love”. Lovingkindness, steadfast love, and unchanging love combined provide a good definition of God’s love. ...
By What Power?

By What Power?

Proverbs 2:3-5. If you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, Then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. How do you in this new covenant age ...
Hold Fast to the End

Hold Fast to the End

In uncertain times, we may think that we know the will of Yahweh but, due to circumstances, may waver in our faith. Our faith might falter because life is generally not linear; life may take many twists and turns. We start out with great commitment, and then as different ...
Honesty

Honesty

2 Peter 1:2. Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. “Grace” and “peace” are part of the greetings in every church Epistle. Grace is God’s divine favor, His kindness, His blessings as a free gift; and peace is tranquility, ...
Perfect High Priest (Part 5 – The Conclusion)

Perfect High Priest (Part 5 – The Conclusion)

Upon concluding this study of Jesus’ role as the High Priest as outlined in the book of Hebrews, it is evident that Jesus’ past accomplishments and present exaltation point toward future fulfillment. Though there is a present, complete perfection wrought in his redemptive ...