The Sermon on the Mount of the Prophetic The assumption has always been that the Beatitudes are about being meek, kind, and merciful as a fulfillment of the essence of…

 New Testament quotations of the Old Testament J. Barton Payne’s Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy seems to be the standard for this subject. There is also Old Testament Quotations in the…

See the video here. Homosexuality? Ravi Zacharias? Well, he doesn’t talk that much about it, and he’s sure not of that persuasion. But when he does say about it gives…

We are all looking for answers to those most important questions, and if we think we already have them we still have to honestly examine them to make sure we…

This is an article in a series: Please see: Christ vs. the Hermeneutical Death Spiral, part 1 Theodicy? My problem is essentially a theodical one as I have alluded, and before…

Male and Female He Created Them. The Liberal and Conservative Allegory of the Garden of Eden. This is an article in a series: Church History: What Went Wrong? part 1…

Hint about the title. If you are thinking the answer that is God is the person, so he is. But not “God,” only God. It’s really not confusing at all.…

Mark 2 and Matthew 9: Bride Chambers, New Cloth, and Jesus Have you ever wondered why we find so many speeches by Jesus in the gospels in which He groups…

The Immaterial and Material Together, to Death or Life: The Phenomenology of Sacred Symbolism The physical world is made up of things and laws, and so is the immaterial mind.

The Bible Experience, not Hot Air: John 9:1-41 “The Bible Experience.” You may have heard it before. Its the title of a New Testament Audiobook. It’s an attempt to turn…

Noun Norming Transcendence? This is about Christ and Transcendence, and whether we believe those two should be together. The meaning of Christ’s parables is in our churchy exegesis for centuries…

Who are the lost, and what are the lost? This started out to be a commentary on the Parable of the Lost Coin in Luke 15. But it quickly went…