Things were a political mess when Jesus was born. The Romans, who controlled Palestine at the time of Jesus birth, were constantly pushing back against the subtle current of Jewish subversion and insubordination to Roman rule. There was nothing that...
Christmas is anything but restful. In fact, Christmas is the busiest time of year for many of us. There is shopping to do, family to visit, cookies to bake, turkeys to roast, gifts to wrap, church services to attend, trees to put up, lights to hang...
Mary gets a lot of attention during the Christmas season. Interestingly enough, Mary is hardly a main character in the life and ministry of Jesus. Of all the times she’s mentioned in the Bible (which aren’t that many), she’s mentioned most during...
The people murmured against Moses. (Ex 15:23; 16:2; 17:3) When we face serious problems, and we know deep inside ourselves that we cannot solve those problems, it causes us to doubt that God himself can solve those problems. We tend to project self...
By Steven Tsoukalas, Ph.D. Dr. Tsoukalas is the Founder of Sound Doctrine Ministries, Guest Assitant Professor of World Religions at Wheaton College and former Associate Professor of Apologetics and Christian Thought at Wesley Biblical Seminary. Dr...
God wants to accomplish the impossible in our lives. He wants to do things that are unexplainable and beyond our imagination. This is an exciting reality, however, it means that we must have unsurmountable obstacle in our lives for this to happen...
There are times when God asks us to do things we don’t want to do. We see this all throughout the Scriptures. Moses is a perfect example of this. God called Moses to go back into Egypt to be his mouthpiece and lead the deliverance from Egyptian...
[This post needs a preface. America and biblical Israel are not the same. We do not follow the Gospel of God and Country. We follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ and God’s covenant people is the church, not America. However, there are similarities...
Have you ever noticed that the Old Testament is significantly longer than the New Testament? In fact, counting by books alone, the Old Testament makes up 59% of the Bible. Counting overall content (which counts for book length), the Old Testament...
On Saturday morning your next-door neighbors hear a knock at their door. They greet two neatly dressed people who introduce themselves as Jehovah’s Witnesses (JWs). Immediately the JWs begin to tell your friends about “paradise on earth,” wherein...