Church

The controversy The first converts to Christianity were Jews who observed the Jewish rituals. But when Paul and Barnabas reached out to the gentiles and didn’t require the converts to…

The word “disciple” is defined as the personal follower of the Savior during His life. And the terms “disciples” and “apostles” are used in the Bible interchangeably. The original twelve…

Paul didn’t abolish the Sabbath in his letters to the churches. He specifically abolished the rituals of the law of Moses like circumcision. Please note that there are two distinct…

Paul circumcised Timothy, who was a Galatian, half Jew and half Gentile, at the beginning of his ministry as a concession to Jewish bias. “… And behold, a certain disciple…

Miracles All who follow Christ and become members of His church on earth have the affirmation that the Holy Spirit will endow them with power to perform the Father’s will.…

Many Christian leaders teach from their pulpits that “the Church” will NOT go through Earth’s final “tribulation,” but will instead be “raptured” or taken to heaven before the final crisis…

Solomon loved many strange (heathen) women (1 Kings 11:1), including 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 Kings 11:3).  Although his reign was the golden age of the Hebrew monarchy, he…

The Jerusalem Decree Luke first mentioned that Paul and Silas worked together after the Jerusalem Council’s decree regarding Gentile conduct in c. A.D. 49 (Acts 15). Church leaders selected these…

Some ask: how often should we tithe? Although the Bible doesn’t give a direct answer to this question, it talks about the principle of the first fruits. The first fruits…

According to Acts 11:19-26, the Jewish believers in Jerusalem scattered abroad after the persecution that arose after the first martyr Stephen. These journeyed as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch…