19+ hour, 18+ min ago  (149+ words) "You are... a holy nation" (1 Pet. 2:9). Holiness involves the decreasing frequency of sin and the increasing frequency of righteousness. Christians are a holy nation—a people set apart from sin and hell to an intimate relationship with God. Originally Israel…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (1214+ words) the Great Disappointment of October 22, 1844. William Miller, a Baptist preacher, had meticulously calculated—and inaccurately predicted—Yeshua's return to Earth on that date. When the world did not end, and Yeshua did not appear, the Millerite movement was plunged into…...

4+ week, 16+ hour ago  (217+ words) "My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism" (James 2:1). Your true worth is based on the value of your soul, not on external considerations. As God, Jesus shares the…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (192+ words) "This is pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father, to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world" (James 1:27). True religion produces holiness and sacrificial love. In our…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (208+ words) "If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is worthless" (James 1:26). Your speech reveals the condition of your heart. In verse 22 James talked about the delusion…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (288+ words) Anabaptism developed as a radical religious and social movement during the Reformation in 16th century Europe. "Anabaptist" means "re-baptiser" and refers to the movement's central rejection of infant baptism in favour of a conscious act of adult baptism into the Christian…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (623+ words) Well-known Christian pastor Francis Chan is raising questions after comments he made about the history of Holy Communion. “I didn’t know that for the first 1,500 years of church history, everyone saw it as the literal body and blood of Christ…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (185+ words) The list was evident if never specific. We did not cross ourselves at the invocation or upon receiving communion. Our pastors did not wear funny suits, they did not dress in clericals, make hand signs over the communion elements, bow,…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1846+ words) By Dr. John Bergsma (intro, first and second readings) and Dr. Brant Pitre (Gospel Reading) This Sunday’s readings might seem bipolar or schizophrenic. We begin Mass with exultant cheering as we relive Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem. We end the…...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago  (705+ words) Is the Rapture real? There’s always debate around this topic. Some say, “Oh, the Rapture is just a modern invention, some 19th-century gimmick.” Nonsense. Yes, J.N. Darby helped popularize it in more recent times, but long before him, the…...