Creativity and innovation in bible interpretation are not badges of honor. Many twist the text to support their own beliefs or convictions. Recently, at a workshop on teaching God’s Word, the speaker ...  Read More

(This was published on January 28th, 2026, in the 2025 Annual Report Booklet). For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. I Timothy 1:7 NKJVWhat is the de...  Read More

Satan’s first words to Eve in the Garden were, “Indeed, has God said…?” I’m certainly not the first person to observe that Satan didn’t outright contradict God but began by deceptively questioning His...  Read More

You’ve probably heard of the “prince of preachers,” 19th-century Baptist minister Charles Spurgeon. Most also know the name Billy Graham, nicknamed “America’s Pastor,” because of his profound impact o...  Read More

By the second half of the fourth century, December 25th was widely acknowledged as the consensus date of Jesus’ birth. Nisan 14, the date of Jesus’ crucifixion, was also believed to be the date of Jes...  Read More

Travel back in time with me to the first Christmas – no, not a stable in Bethlehem in 4 B.C. (the likely date of Jesus’ birth), but 336 A.D., in the home of a wealthy Roman Christian named Valentinus....  Read More

The population of the world has exceeded 8 billion people for several years now. Less than 5% of that number celebrate Thanksgiving. Let’s take a brief survey of the most observed holidays in the worl...  Read More

What are the most important ingredients for Christian growth? Most of us would be quick to identify Scripture reading and prayer; perhaps we’d include listening to preaching and Christian service too....  Read More

On this date 508 years ago, Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg. Though many concurrent forces over the previous few centuries led to this point,...  Read More

The Gospel comes to us not only in words, but in pictures.The two chief pictures are seen ordinarily at every Bible-believing church. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper have been named ordinances, a word t...  Read More

In Allen Levi’s The Last Sweet Mile, the author recounts the year he spent with his brother, Gary, as he battled inoperable brain cancer. It is a touching story about how two brothers and best friends...  Read More

The Apostle Paul had some extraordinary gifts. He cast out demons (Acts 16:18), healed a man crippled from birth (Acts 14:8-9), resurrected a young man who had fallen from a third-story window, and bl...  Read More