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• Will We See Our Pets Again in Eternity?

  Will your beloved pets be resurrected to be with you in the eternal age-to-come (2 Peter 3:13)? Or do your pets go directly to Heaven and await your arrival? What about other animals in Eternity? These are legitimate questions because some people naturally wonder about their beloved pets and other animals. While the Bible doesn’t […]

• How to Be a Modern DAVID Against a Modern GOLIATH

  Historical accounts in the Old Testament were chronicled to teach or warn future believers, meaning you and me (Romans 15:4 & 1 Corinthians 10:11). With this in mind, let’s take a fresh look at Israel’s conflict with the Philistines when David was still a teenager and not yet a soldier. 1Now the Philistines gathered their […]

• What Does It Mean to Be “BAPTIZED WITH FIRE”?

    What did John the Baptist mean when he said regarding Christ: “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire”? Let’s read the statement in its fuller context as that will reveal its meaning: 7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to […]

• Being an Heir to the Kingdom of God, Inheriting It and Seeing It

  The question we want to answer is this: What is the difference between being an heir to the kingdom of God, entering it and seeing it? The ‘kingdom of God’ literally refers to “the rule of the LORD” or “spiritual reign of God” (and is synonymous with the kingdom of Heaven). This could apply to the […]

• When Pastors Fail to Correct Their Relatives in the Church

  Have you ever experienced a situation at an assembly where the pastor refuses to genuinely correct a carnal individual because they’re related? For instance, Carol & I were part of a ministry years ago where a pathological liar ran around the church gossiping & slandering, yet was tolerated because she was related to the pastor […]

• Can a Person “Sell Their Soul” to the Devil?

  You’ve no doubt seen a movie or read a story about a person selling his/her soul to the devil, like Ghost Rider or Faust. In these tales the individual makes a deal with the devil (or some lesser demon) by offering his/her soul in exchange for some extraordinary benefits, but there’s always a downside and […]

• What Is Spiritual Death?

  Spiritual death simply means that the spirit of a person is dead to God, that is, the capacity of their spirit to unite them with God is dead because they lack eternal life. The only life they have is the temporal life inherited from the perishable seed of Adam. Christianity is all about reversing this […]

• MANNA Was a Shadow of the BREAD FROM HEAVEN, Jesus Christ

  After the Hebrews escaped from slavery in Egypt circa 1446 BC, they wandered in the desert wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula for 40 years before making it to their earthly “promised land,” Canaan, which became Israel. Since there were 603,550 fighting men over the the age of 20 (Numbers 1:46), this places the total number […]

• SPIRITUAL Blessings vs. MATERIAL Blessings

  Observe what the apostle Paul said about “spiritual blessings”: Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Ephesians 1:3 “Spiritual blessing” suggests immaterial blessing in contrast to physical blessings, as distinguished in these two verses: They were […]

• Does Walking in AGAPE LOVE Mean You Should Be a DOORMAT to Abuse?

    A popular minister was preaching on walking in agape love wherein he quoted a verse from the great love passage: Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, 1 Corinthians 13:7a (Amplified Bible Classic) He then brought up a Christian brother who was dealing with a rude, abusive jerk and vented in desperation, “I […]