The Supreme Court of the United States ruled by a five to four vote on Friday that the United States Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage. But nothing has changed. Eighteen hundred years before there was a Supreme Court, Jesus, God Himself, said, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold […]
The Catholic Church is responding to pressures of worldliness, and the present pope is gladly taking the lead. Since its official inception upon the creation of the papal system, Catholicism has been the departure from the truth prophesied by Paul (cf. 2 Thes. 2:1-12), and it continues to go farther and farther away from “the […]
To understand repentance, look at sin. For true repentance to take place, one must have the sense of sin, i.e. he must be conscious of it. Sin is lawlessness (1 John 3:4). It is wrongdoing (1 John 5:17), and everyone does it (cf. Rom. 3:10, 23). If we say we have not sinned, we are […]
During the time Mary Jane was carrying our first child, my uncle (dad’s oldest brother) had a heart attack and a subsequent open-heart surgery. After smoking cigarettes for most of his life, he suddenly quit smoking when I was a young man. Realizing the difficulty of such a break from nicotine, I asked him how […]
A piece that appeared in the New York Times on October 7, 2014, written by Sheryl Stolberg, began, “There are countless churches but not much openly gay life in this city by the banks of the Tennessee River.” The byline was “Florence, Alabama.” Stolberg went on to reveal the work of “the gay rights movement” […]
If you are a daily Bible reader who started with the first chapter of Genesis at the beginning of the year, perhaps you have read Numbers 31 by now. This chapter contains the record of Israel’s defeat of the Midianites, which is a sequel to the account of Israel’s sin with the daughters of Moab […]
A little boy asked his aunt about her job. She answered, “I am a secretary. All I do is look like a doll, think like a man, act like a lady, and work like a dog.” Perhaps the demands have been a cause of brief tenures of such assistants while the rewards and love of […]
One gets “into Christ” by putting Him on in baptism. And “in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith” (Galatians 3:26). Being children in some families has a good many privileges. So it is in the family of God where the greater blessings are found. Children of God enjoy the privilege of […]
Jesus is God (cf. John 1:1; 8:38, 49, 54), and God is spirit (John 4:24). Yet, Jesus came to have a body. It was first an embryo in the womb of a virgin named Mary. On the night He was born, shepherds saw the body of the Savior “wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger” (Luke […]