Make no mistake: the Bible declares poverty and lack to be bad things. Under the Old Covenant (aka, Old Testament, the Jewish experience before Jesus), poverty was a result of disobedience and indifference to the commands of God. Tremendous material …
The Bible is made up of several books split into two parts: Old and New. This should be a big clue as to how we should look at them. The New is where we are living now. It is New …
Guess what: you absolutely matter in God’s universe. What you do matters, what you say matters, what you believe matters. Your laziness matters, your foolishness matters, as does your indifference and apathy. But your hard works of prayer, love and …
Law and order holds our universe together. Many groundbreaking scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton persisted in their work out of a firm conviction of discoverable order as described in the Bible. Unlike many of their predecessors, they were rewarded …
The Bible book of Job gets a lot of bad press including inappropriate quoting and wrong conclusions, but this book just might be one of the most important books of the Bible. It’s unique perspective of life before Moses, Jesus, …
The Bible leaves no other option, and no room for anyone else: Jesus is the Messiah, the Savior of the world, the King of Kings. But why did He come as a baby? If Jesus is God, wouldn’t He have …
Jesus and the early disciples went about preaching the “Kingdom of God” (a.k.a., Kingdom of Heaven in Matthew), revealing a great deal about what it is, and what it isn’t. The scripture makes it clear that the Kingdom is not …
Because eternal evil is real, and it should not be allowed to exist everywhere. In Matthew 25:31-46, Jesus revealed that the “everlasting fire” was “prepared for the devil and his angels.” However, as He also explains in the same passage, …
Good means nothing if there is no punishment or consequence for sin. Why do “good” if anything and everything brings the same outcomes? In fact, we would not even know that we were doing good if it was not contrasted …
Because God truly loves His people! He has prepared a place in His universe where His people can thrive in preparation for the next age when Jesus and His church (see Why Born Again?) will reign over the nations. When …