Purification

In today’s language, we can see the word “purification” and apply that to so many things.  The image above is a diagram describing purifying jet fuel.  You can find search results about water, metals, other liquids, etc.  In English, purification simply means the removal of contaminants from something.  However, in Numbers, when Moses talks about

Vengeance Is Mine

King David was an interesting man.  For as many faults he had as a human, he was still a man after God’s own heart.  One way we see this is the deep and utter remorse when the wrong thing is done, by himself or his own men.  He wept at the things that would not

Modern Myth of Healing

I don’t want my title above to be confusing at all.  I have total and complete faith that God heals.  That he healed in the past, he heals today and will continue to heal in the future.  The “myth” part I am referring to is the gift of healing.  I have no doubt that God

Christian Disabilities Act

Who hasn’t heard of the American with Disabilities Act, they create rules for us to live by in order to not disadvantage those with various disabilities.  The ADA covers things like door size and weight, sink height, ramp slope on a sidewalk, etc.  If you are a business and want to build anything, you have

Who Was Melchizedek?

Abram, before he became Abraham, has an interaction with a ‘man’ that is titled as both a king and a priest.  “After his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

The Parable of the Storm

When it comes to the Bible there are no coincidences. So when we read about Jesus calming the storm immediately following his teaching in Parables and explaining why he teaches in parables it’s easy to see that Jesus calming the storm is in fact a parable in itself. To explain this, let’s first recap what

Help My Unbelief

There is no doubt that an unbeliever will be eternally cut off from God.  It’s the one thing that Jesus’ blood does not cover.  Because in order to be save by His blood, you must believe.  However, there’s a difference between being an ‘unbeliever’ and having ‘unbelief’. There’s a story where Jesus cleanses a boy

Causes of Sin

Every once in a while, there’s a text in the Gospels that if read in a vacuum could be difficult to understand.  Twice in Matthew and once in Mark, Jesus uses language that seems pretty extreme about how we should fight to avoid temptations.  Here’s the example in Matthew 18. “Woe to the world for

No Zombies in Heaven

It’s amazing the kind of “arguments” some will make in an attempt to discredit the faith in an eternal life in Heaven.  The interesting thing is that just about every argument we hear today, we see evidence of a similar argument in the early church.  There really is nothing new under the sun. The church

Deliberate Attacks of Young Christians

Satan and his demons have two goals.  First is to keep you from ever knowing the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior.  Once that happens there’s nothing he can ever do to take away your salvation.  However, they still have a second goal… that is to limit your effectiveness.  This is the thing that we