If a person is to obey God and go to heaven, then understanding Scripture becomes preeminent. Can one wait on divine enlightenment from God to understand His will? Can people dwell in caves, fast, self-mutilate, or impoverish themselves to be granted illumination of scripture? Should individuals wait for divine intervention, for the Holy Spirit to…

Often those with a less-than-reputable past or the unhappy doubt their usefulness to the Lord and have no confidence as a Christian. With such verses and statements like, “a corrupt tree [cannot] bring forth good fruit” (Matt. 7:18b), “Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?” (James 3:11), and “They…

The English poet Alexander Pope famously states in his 1711 poem, An Essay on Criticism, “To err is human” (Alexander Pope, The Poems of Alexander Pope, ed. John Butt (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1963), 160). Many presume that even the Heavenly Father cannot expect Christians to be perfect because they are humans. Humans…

There exists a fine line between, people not judging based on appearances and Christians leading people to believe in a false idea through their example. Christians often ponder and ask questions like, “I know gambling is wrong, but is it also wrong if I work for the gambling hall and not participate in the gambling?”…

The worship assembly spans over numerous generations all coming together into one unified glorification of their Creator. To see and be a part of such an experience enriches one’s life (Ps. 133:1). Nevertheless, with so many people of various backgrounds and life experiences, many worship goers expect and appeal for different preferences in worship. Baby…

The church now deals with something new that previous generations have provided no direct applications, which is virtual worship. Guy N. Woods, G.K. Wallace, David Lipscomb, N.B. Hardeman write nothing about virtual worship. The current generation of Christians cannot lean on the scholars of the previous generations to directly answer their questions concerning the soundness…

“How do we know that we have a soul, can we feel it?” “Is what we feel God’s way of helping us through our own conscience in understanding right and wrong?” Many in the world believe right and wrong to be a matter of feeling, which connects to the conscience. Many paroemias derive from this…

An insightful question about confession was asked after reading James 5:16, the person asked, “Do we have to confess all our ‘faults’ or just some and which ones do we confess and to whom do we confess?” Not uncommonly, worshipers have seen a penitent individual walk down the aisle to respond to the invitation given…

Justification and sanctification are often confused as being the same thing. Christians through the years often ask, “What is sanctification? Is it the same as justification?” As always, understanding the words of the Bible remain paramount to a person’s comprehension of God’s message. The words sanctify, sanctification, holy, and holiness all derive and relate to…

In 1973, a landmark decision was announced by the United States Supreme Court in the court case of Roe vs. Wade. The justices ruled 7 to 2 that a right to privacy under the due process laws of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman’s right to abort her unborn child. The Gallup Poll has…