By Pastor Roger Skepple Like many of you, I have been horrified as I have watched the unfolding of the most recent senseless police killing of an unarmed black man […]
Part Five: The Outcome of the Colonization (a) Having articulated the result of his first prayer request, Paul closed out his recounting of it to the Ephesians by describing the […]
Part Four: The Means to the Colonization The next question that comes to mind is how does something so divinely wonderful as Spiritual Colonization take place? We have clearly seen […]
Thoughts on blamelessness from evening service in 1 Thessalonians (10/8/2017): Praise the Lord, I’m Blameless! What this means, saints, is that at minimum, the concept of being blameless for the […]
Part Three: The Place of the Colonization Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians in Ephesians 3:14-19 exposed the apostle’s heart concerns for the believers that he had led to the Lord […]
Part Two: The Colonization In part one of this examination of Spiritual Colonization, we looked at the colonizer, who was Jesus Christ Himself. As we continue this look at the […]
Part One: The Colonizer Spiritual Colonization: what is it and why is it important to the Christian life? Years ago in my exposition of the book of Ephesians while teaching […]
Issues of Conscience: Tattoos, Piercings, and Bible Study I just had the pleasure of concluding an exposition of the conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees and scribes in Mark 7:1-23. […]
We established in the first two parts of our discussion of the Trinity and its importance to Christian unity. We accomplished this by first locating the critical discussion of the […]
As God is Three in One and One in Three, His church is an earthly reflection of Himself, a perfect unity. And right here is the importance of unity in […]
The God of the Church: The Basis of our Christian Unity (A Consideration of the Trinity and One of Its Practical Imports) In an important declaration of Christian unity […]
John Wycliffe (1328-1384) In 1320’s, no one knows exactly, John Wycliffe was born in England. At that time the Roman Catholic Church was the only Christian church in Europe; and […]
Reformation Moments In 2013 Berean a Fall Conference series that examined Church History by looking at influential people. We made that decision for several reasons; but one of the most […]
Without question, one of the most sought out answers within the church today is, “What is the will of God for my life?” If we do not ask this question, […]
There are Christian groups, referred to as Paedobaptists, who believe that it is correct and even needful to offer baptism to infants and toddlers of Christian parents. Their argument for […]
Women’s Ministry: The Saturday Morning Quarterly Bible Study will meet this Saturday, September 25th, from 10:00am – 12noon. Presenter Johnnie Dixon. The topic discussed “Pursuing Hospitality”. Romans 12:13 is the […]
Was Christ’s death and thereby His atonement unlimited or limited in its scope? Was it general or particular? The question of “For whom did Christ die” is a difficult question […]
We answer this question with a resounding yes. Not only can man choose what he wants, man actually does choose exactly what he wants. However, there is an additional question […]
The Greek word “Rhema” was often used as a synonym for Logos. Whereas Logos focused on a written word, Rhema focused on the spoken form of the written word. The […]
In short, no. In Exodus 20:4-6 the subject is idolatry. Regarding those who commit idolatry, we learn that God would visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to […]
