One preacher had enough of all the entertainment in churches and spoke out. He said they turn worship into “a place of hilarious amusement.” These gimmicks, he said, “despiritualize the people; merge the high sense of obligation into pleasure seeking; blot out that line of demarcation between the church and the world, which cannot be destroyed without debasing the one and affording rare comfort to the other and its sins…They are full of weaklings with itching ears and sensua

If you spotted the error, kudos. It’s a common error. I was proofreading an article and saw that I put the word “not” twice: “It is not not…” I had made that mistake many times, but this time I laughed it off and told myself that if I really wanted to make the point emphatic I could leave the extra not  in there. But then something struck me. That’s exactly what the Greeks did. Some verses in the New Testament use a double negative for emphasis. They had more than one word fo

Is drinking a sin? There is a simple word in the Bible that answers that question. “For the time past of our  life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries” (I Pet. 4:3). There are three words in this verse that involve drinking alcohol. The first is “excess of wine” in the King James. Other translations have “drunkenness.” The Greek word is oinophlugia,

Job said, “For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me” (Job 3:25). Have you ever said, “I had a feeling something like this was going to happen”? Sometimes there's a reason why we have that nervousness. We've seen it happen before. We know the people involved. We're not surprised when it happens. But many things we are afraid will happen never do. David was sure in his mind that his father-in-law Saul would kill him. He said, "There

“The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.” The people who said this weren't atheists. You can understand why someone who doesn't believe in God would think this way. If he says it, he's just being sarcastic. They weren't Greek philosophers like the Epicureans Paul met in Athens. Epicurus believed in Greek gods, but he said they don’t intervene in the world. They have nothing to do with human beings. That’s why he said there is nothing to fear and you can just have

Marriage problems. Troubles with children. Disagreements over the Bible. Homes are falling apart. How can we endure? Remember you're not...

One preacher was writing about the sad condition of the United States. He said "the very frame of our government, our constitution, laws,...

Idolatry was common in Bible times. This puzzles us. Why would anyone bow down to a piece of carved wood or rock and pray to it? Idolatry...

I was in my twenties the first time I heard him. I thought, “Wow! This guy is saying what a lot of us have been thinking!” He was...

“The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, like the rivers of water. He turns it wherever he wishes” (Prov. 21:1). How many...

It is a fact of history that schools, like societies, tend to go from conservative to liberal and not the other way around. They begin...

The story of Cain and Abel in Genesis 4 is remarkable in many ways. One of these is what was said and what was not said. The Bible only...

The top three internet search questions about God and religion according to research are: Does God exist? Why is there evil and...

It happened 80 years ago this week on August 6, 1945. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The...

It was getting late one night in a revival at Millersburg, Kentucky in 1821. Several people responded to the preaching and came down...

Most people I hear talking about facial recognition are scared. Human beings have always had the tendency to nose into other people's...

“Greeks seek after wisdom” (I Cor. 1:22). But the wisdom they sought after in Paul’s day was human wisdom, not the wisdom of God. That...

“We are on a countdown to crisis. The coming nuclear showdown with Iran is a certainty. The war of Ezekiel 38–39 could begin before this...

It happened a hundred years ago this month. It was called "the trial of the century.” In the spring of 1925, the Tennessee legislature...

"But I believe in God. I'm not an atheist. I try to be a good person.” How many times do people use this as a reason for not being a...