When I was a teenager in Helena, Montana, our home on Townsend Avenue was open. It was regularly noisy with neighborhood kids and friends from school—laughing, chasing, playing, getting snacks, staying for dinner, staying over night. They felt welcome and…
HOW THE GREEK DEFINITE ARTICLE DIFFERS FROM THE ENGLISH DEFINITE ARTICLE Over the years I have often heard preachers force unique, even bizarre, nuances on passages in the New Testament based on the presence of the Greek definite article. If the…
For centuries Western and Eastern culture alike have condemned homosexuality as wrong. On this point the world’s major religions like Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism and the anti-religious Socialism that engulfed most of the world in the last century…
Many times over the years I have heard Christians defend compromise with the justification, “It’s just a little thing.” This was generally followed up with a rant about legalistic believers making mountains out of molehills. Notice the fallacy here. They…
Frequently I hear believers state that it is wrong to serve Christ with a view to earning a reward in heaven. They say working for reward is carnal. They insist that spiritual believers serve Christ for His glory alone. This…
From time to time my wife will think outside the box in the kitchen. Usually this ends up somewhere between ho-hum and disaster. One such occasion occurred on January 1, 2000 when she served pancakes for breakfast. The first bite—which…
The book by Carl Gallups, The Rabbi Who Found Messiah, poses the claim that the ultra-Orthodox rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri might have found the true Messiah. This is an astonishing claim. I started this book wanting to believe that Rabbi Kaduri…
The common understanding of 2 Thessalonians 2:6-7 regards the Holy Spirit as the restrainer. He restrains the mystery of iniquity until the rapture when he (the Holy Spirit) will be removed from earth with the church. This makes way for…
HOLEY CHRISTIANITY Many years back when we were driving rust buckets, a friend loaned me a Nissan pickup—the holey Nissan. It was a rolling joke. The bumper was tied on with twine. The frame sagged between the cab and the…
When I was a sophomore in high school a friend told me he had caught a bullhead in a trout stream in Montana. I asked him to describe the bullhead. He did. Then I informed him that he had caught…