My literature ministry at San Diego State University brings me into contact with not only Jewish students but also students from many diverse backgrounds. Usually there are up to a dozen or so literature tables offering different things to the inquiring student. Because of the lateness of the hour this particular day only two tables […]

With the victory of Joe Biden as President and the Democrat control of both houses of Congress, the U.S.A. faces a bleak future. Socialism/Marxism is winning battles, and it most likely won’t be long before they win the war, introducing a progressive, leftist anti-Christian agenda to America. Talk is rampant about civil war, secession, and […]

The Bible mentions adoption five times. The concept of adoption in the Bible is usually, uncritically, understood with the meaning of adoption in our modern world. Webster’s online dictionary defines adoption as, “to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) as one’s own child.” Is this the biblical meaning and use of adoption? First, it […]

The statement in 2 Corinthians 5:21, “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him,” tells us that Jesus became sin (for us). Is this what this verse is communicating regarding Jesus? Did the perfect, holy Lamb of God […]

The first response to the title of this article is likely one of incredulousness. Why even ask, might be your thought, as everyone believes Luke was Gentile. It is true that the vast majority of Christians believe that Luke was the lone Gentile writer of some of the books of the New Testament. But it […]

There may not be any greater controversy in the Christian world than the subject of predestination. For the Calvinist, the reality of predestination is that God has foreordained the destiny of all. The Westminster Confession of Faith states: “By the decree of God, for the manifestation of his glory, some men and angels are predestinated […]

In a marriage arranged from “on high”, Isaac at the age of forty would marry Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel, Abraham’s brother’s son. They had a great desire to have children, but for twenty years Rebekah had been barren. They sought the LORD that her inability to conceive would be removed. God granted their petition, and […]