The world the Lord has made is physical, beautiful, grand and amazing, and yet before sin ruined it, it would have been much more glorious than we are capable of imagining. Eden was no little garden, no tiny planting of herbs, and no orchard, or minuscule...
There was a time not so long ago when to say that there were still apostles was almost heretical, but if you got away with saying it, people would certainly disagree. There were of course apostles in Bible times, they wrote a lot of the New...
In Romans 8:15 it describes something we know as sonship. 'The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”' Sonship is a...
How to describe sin? That is a tricky thing to do. The first place that sin is mentioned in the Bible is Genesis 4:7. The Lord spoke to Cain, saying, “Sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over...
Catholics love Mary, and Protestants trying to avoid the appearance of idolatry minimise her. But Mary is in fact uniquely special in the Bible, not just because of being the mother of Jesus, but because of another quality. Do a search through the scriptures and find...
The city of Sanliurfa, (pronounced Shan Lurfa) located in Turkey, was prior to World War I known simply as Urfa. It is believed by many people to be the place where Abraham was born. Urfa even sounds like Ur, the city the Bible records as...
In Abraham's day everyone loved idols. In fact it seemed to be the way of the whole world. No matter what age of history, archaeologists are always digging up idols. Idols in the Palaeolithic era. Idols in the Neolithic era. Idols in the Chalcolithic era. Idols in the Bronze...
In the early part of the Bible, the Lord appeared and made a promise to Abraham saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land.' Genesis 12:7 (NIV) The word translated 'offspring' here in NIV is actually the word seed. That can be seen in alternate...
Hopefully nobody assumes what this post is about without actually reading the whole way through. I most definitely do believe that the walls of Jericho fell down. The reality is undisputed, a fact proven by archeology that the walls did in fact collapse. It was Kathleen Kenyon...
We recently had a visitor to Peace who had been on a mission trip to India with Stuart Gramenz. Stuart taught people to lay hands on the sick and say, 'Be healed in Jesus' name.' During a church meeting, our visitor was presented with a girl...
