In recent times, with COVID mandates and restrictions affecting all areas of society, it has gotten a lot of Christians talking about Romans 13 and its application to the relationship between Church and State. I've seen many poor expositions of the passage and even more lamentable applications of...
Listen to an audio version of this article here: We’ve covered a lot in this series of articles and I pray that it has been informative and helpful for you. We looked at what Jesus meant by “this generation” and showed that there is no other valid way to interpret it than referring to the...
Listen to the audio version of this episode here: In our first article, we laid out the case that when Jesus said that all the things he predicted in Matthew 24 would take place before “this generation” passed away, he meant it for the people living in his day. We saw that the end he predicted was...
Listen to an audio version of this article here: In our first article, we looked at what Jesus meant when he said “this generation will not pass away until all these things are fulfilled” and saw that he was clearly speaking about his contemporaries in his day. His predictions were meant for...
Listen to an audio version of this article here. In our first article, we looked at what Jesus meant when he said that “all these things” would take place before “this generation” passed away. We saw that clearly, Jesus meant that the generation in his day would see the fulfillment of his...
Listen to the audio version of this article HERE. In our first article, we showed that when Jesus said “this generation will not pass away before all these things take place” he meant the people living in his day - his contemporaries. We considered other interpretations of the phrase “this...
Listen to the audio version of this article HERE. Jesus’s words in Matthew 24 are some of the most intense and also confusing passages of his teachings. In it, he warns of a period of great tribulation, wars, famine, apostasy, and false prophets, so intense that if it had not been cut short, no...
The ΕχεGrεεκsις series of articles are meant for those who want to dig in deeper into the text beyond just a casual reading. It intends to pull back the curtain a little to see a bit of what goes on "behind the scenes" of translating our New Testament to English. I lay out the Greek text in bold,...
A kid in high school was shocked when his uncle passed away so suddenly in his prime. He was telling a friend ,Jonny, how hard it was that it happened so suddenly. Then Jonny tells him, “oh, my uncle knew exactly what day and what time he was going to die!” Amazed he asked, “wow, that’s...
In the first entry of this Devotional Commentary, we took a look at chapter 1 of Paul's letter to the Romans. We considered some of the contexts of the letter, its structure and its purpose so that we can better understand the message Paul was conveying. We then took a look at the text,...