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Newsletter — May 11, 2025 May 11th, 2025

When you are reading your bible to yourself, or to your children, or listening to it, keep your eyes and ears perked to listen to repeated phrases and words. For example, we all know from Genesis 3:15 that Jesus is going to crush the “head of the serpent.” But then throughout the …

Newsletter — May 4, 2025 May 4th, 2025

May Day, or the International Worker’s Day, was celebrated this past week on the 1st. It’s a day in which communists and socialists commemorate the struggle and gains made by workers and the labor movement around the world. That movement holds Karl Marx as its head, and also attributes great …

Newsletter — April 27, 2025 April 27th, 2025

He is Risen! He is Risen, Indeed! There is plenty of joy coming from Easter and the Easter season, and for good reason: our Lord lives, and his word was vindicated, giving great hope, joy, and confidence to all his followers, both then and now. Not only did his death clear our …

Newsletter — April 20, 2025 April 20th, 2025

“Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen” (Luke 24:5b–6a). We respond: “He is Risen! He is Risen Indeed!” The words above from Luke 24 were the first words spoken by the two angels to the women who had come to prepare Jesus’ body for burial …

Newsletter — April 13, 2025 April 13th, 2025

In the book of Ezra, Ezra the Priest is quite appalled to hear that the exiles had intermarried with Canaanites, one of the very sins that sent them into exile in the first place. They had broken faith by taking wives of the Canaanites, so that they mixed the holy race with the peoples of the …

Newsletter — April 6, 2025 April 6th, 2025

One of the recurring themes that the apostle James returns to several times in his epistle is the sinful nature of the human tongue. In 4:11–12, he specifically deals with brothers who speak evil of one another. This tendency to speak evil of each other has deep roots in mankind’s …

Newsletter — March 23, 2025 March 23rd, 2025

2 Timothy 3.1-9 is another one of those “last days” passages that our Christian brothers often take as applicable here and now, as if we are in the last days. But as I showed in the last Weekly Perspective, “last days” has a wide pedigree in the Bible, such as in Joel 2, Acts 2, Hebrews …

Newsletter — March 16, 2025 March 16th, 2025

1 Timothy 4:1-5 is another one of those passages that Christians often get snookered by, because they don’t know the context. Paul is talking about the later times, how bad things will be, and other Christians read that and turn to you and say, “We are in the last days; this passage …

Newsletter — March 9, 2025 March 9th, 2025

Matthew 7:1, “Judge not, that you be not judged” is one of the most misquoted passages in the bible, and used often against Christians by unbelievers when the subject of sin or obedience or faithfulness comes up. “Don’t judge lest you be judged!” They quote it to shut down any judgment …

Newsletter — March 2, 2025 March 2nd, 2025

Reading the context around a particular verse makes all the difference in its interpretation, and will keep you from being misled by popular false opinions.. For instance, I Timothy 2.1-7 includes the phrases “who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth …

Newsletter — February 23, 2025 February 23rd, 2025

“Male and Female”: where have you heard that phrase before? Well, in Genesis 1 when God creates man and woman, male and female, Adam and Eve. Also, in Matthew 19 when Jesus responds to the hard-hearts of the Pharisees regarding divorce, reminding them that the Creator “from the …

Newsletter — February 16, 2025 February 16th, 2025

Finishing out our short look at Psalm 16, we find that David is not only making requests of the Lord while trusting in him, he is also celebrating his security of being in the Lord’s care: “Therefore my heart is glad, and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure.” David is glad …