There are a few scary verses in the Bible. Some of them because we understand them, but some of them are scary because we do not understand them. Like this verse quoting Jesus: 'For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of...
In the book of Revelation, filled with amazing apocalyptic imagery, we notice that it will happen according to the words of Jesus… ‘soon.’ But it was written two thousand years ago. So does it soon back then, or soon now? What in...
Maxwell Clanfield was my grandfather. He went to be with the Lord a few weeks ago. After finding Christ at a young age, and also marrying young, both Max and Noreen dedicated their entire lives to serving Jesus. They served in both...
Does the story of the Wise Men in the Matthew's gospel, validate the idea that astrology is ok? It seems for some people they think it does, but reading the Bible story a bit closer helps us see it otherwise. The ‘Magi’ of Matthew 2:1 were wise...
Last week a commenter on our YouTube channel suggested we were wrong about Jesus being the Jewish Messiah, because whoever the Messiah was, they needed to do these six things. He said that Jesus failed because the only thing he did was the first. Be...
Doesn't Jesus' behaviour with the whip in the temple seem a bit out of character? Why would someone so caring, known for healing and forgiving, suddenly go kind of psycho? Well, sometimes a little more information changes everything. Here is some background information to do just...
Sometimes when you are talking about Jesus, people raise an objection to God's perceived fairness. 'What about all those people in the Congo jungle who never heard the gospel? Surely God isn't going to send them to Hell for not believing when they never had the...
Like many things in the Old Testament, they were a physical thing setup by God to help us get at (ie understand) a more complicated concept, which without the initial setup we would not have grasped. Indeed, even with the physical example to use as...
It is an interesting exercise to consider all the people in history who have lived and try to rank them in terms of greatness. Christians, and indeed many others instantly put Jesus at number one. That makes sense given how much the world has changed...
