The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings. The men who...

Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. Selah

When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man’s biography regarding God’s promised experiences and truth for him – his individual, unique...

The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn.

Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism. In the entirety of the Hebrew Bible there is not a single...

Though you recite much scripture, If you are unaware and do not act accordingYou are like a cowherd counting others’ cattle, Not a sharer in the wanderer’s life.

He’d believe anything provided it’s not in Holy Scripture.

The law was good, Paul wrote, and its purpose vital. But its purpose was also temporary. Once Christ fulfilled the law, his followers would have trivialized his sacrifice by living as though they were still...

The truth was always the truth, but until I knew the truth for myself, I couldn’t be free.

Our Scripture awakened that most glorious of things, the spontaneous love our Lord so desires His children to bear Him, for it is what He bears them.

Probably one of the most surprising discoveries I’ve made while studying the Bible is that God does not condone religion. It’s a consistent theme throughout scripture. Religion is man’s external effort to please God. But...

When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking.

Why is it so hard to get people to study the Scriptures? Common sense tells us what revelation commands: ‘Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God’–‘Search the Scriptures’–‘Be ready to give...

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord,She shall be praised.(Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version)

if we fail to root ourselves in Scripture, our souls will be starved for Christ.

There is talk of a new astrologer [Nicolaus Copernicus] who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of the sky, the sun, the moon, just as if somebody were moving in...

Thus it is written that the messiah would suffer and rise again on the third day,” Jesus instructs his disciples (Luke 24:44–46). Except that nowhere is any such thing written: not in the Law of...

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

Upon being given a Bible, President Abraham Lincoln replied, “In regard to this Great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

Neither Peter in his work to include Gentiles in the church nor the abolitionists in their campaign against slavery argued that their experience should take precedence over Scripture. But they both made the case that...

I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in...

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:a time to be born and a time to die,a time to plant and a time to uproot,a time to kill and...

The response to stress is not less time in God’s Word, but more.

In the Old Testament…God is the owner of the vineyard. Here He is the Keeper, the Farmer, the One who takes care of the vineyard. Jesus is the genuine Vine, and the Father takes care...

Wherever he found his speech growing too modern — which was about every sentence or two — he ladled in a few such Scriptural phrases as “exceeding sore,” “and it came to pass,” etc., and...

Why do we live out every day as if there is no hope to overcome our chaos and no possibility for living a stressed-less life when Scripture repeatedly reassures us that God has the power...

Each heart knows its own bitterness and no one else can share its joy.

Therefore from one man (Abraham) … were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude — innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were used to rationalize the massacre of infidels, the ownership of women, the beating...

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.” The painting can also inspire a physical response in the form of tears as it calls to mind its more earth-bound aspects;...

So Encourage Each Other and Build Each Other Up-Positive Connections.

Take all of this Book upon reason that you can, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man.

Scripture, empowered by God’s Spirit, is the instrument that brings people to salvation.

bless me parties.” We cannot learn competency by osmosis. Biblically illiterate Christians are not only inadequate but unequipped. In fact, they are inadequate because they are not equipped.

Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?Look at...

Your attitude toward Scripture can reveal your attitude toward the Savior. When your passion for God’s Word runs high, your passion for God does as well.

The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from religious experience: when religious authorities began to insist on the literal truth of...

Saint Augustine … insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and...