We are about to enter a new year shortly, the year of our Lord 2007. While this new year is not as distinct as when the new Millennium came around in 2000 (or even when a new decade begins, as will happen in 2010), the beginning of a new year is a good opportunity [...]

As a follow up to my previous post here, if you are looking for a plan to read through the Bible in 2007 you can find a good one developed by Dr. Benjamin Shaw of Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary at on the Greenville Seminary Resource web page. The plan is a PDF file that [...]

What is faith? Do you have faith? Do you have the faith spoken of in the Bible? How can you know? Can you understand what Biblical faith is and be enabled to examine your own life to see if you have it? I believe the answers to these last two questions are ‘yes’ and ‘yes’!But [...]

Have you read through the entire Bible? About the time I finished High School, I got the idea that I should read through the Bible as part of becoming an educated man. I sat down and calculated the number of chapters in the entire Bible and discovered that if I read a chapter a [...]

Last week we took a first look at why God gave His Law. I mentioned briefly that normally theologians talk about three “uses” of the Law. By “uses” we mean that there are three broad categories of ways in which the Law of God helps people. They can be summarized as:

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Over the years, I have found that one of the most abused verses of Scripture is the King James Version’s translation of Proverbs 29:18, “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” In contradiction to almost all principles of interpreting Scripture (context, original language vocabulary studies, comparison with other passages, etc.), this passage is [...]