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The Story of the Few Who Stand From the opening pages of Scripture to the final scenes of Revelation, God preserves a Remnant, a faithful few who walk with Him when the world around them turns aside. The pattern begins with Noah. In a generation filled with violence and corruption, God...

Brother, thank you for your thoughtful and respectful reply. I appreciate the tone, and I want to answer in the same spirit. I do not want to argue philosophy or systems, only to stay with the words God has given us. For me, the question is not whether the atonement is substitutionary. We both...

Brother, thank you for speaking honestly. Losing one brother is a wound. Losing two is a weight few men could carry without breaking. I cannot pretend to know the depth of what you have lived through, and I will not offer easy answers to something that has torn your life apart. I do believe...

On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 Written to a dear Brother in Christ who, twenty‑one years before Linda’s passing, lost his eighteen‑year‑old daughter in a tragic traffic accident. I share it now in the hope that it may comfort others who walk through the valley of grief. Dear Brother, Greetings in the...

I want to speak respectfully here, because my concern is not with you as a person, but with the view itself. I cannot accept the idea that the cross was not a legal, substitutionary act, because Scripture uses that language directly. The Bible says, “The wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23), and...

A Missive of Clarity There is a difference between what we confess and what we absorb. Creed belongs to the realm of the eternal, for the Lord Himself prayed, “Thy word is truth” (John 17:17). Culture belongs to the realm of the moment, shifting with every wind of doctrine, just as Paul warned...

CanadyJD, that was a clear and well‑reasoned reply. You stayed with the context of the passage and handled the discussion with a steady tone. I appreciated the balance and the way you kept the focus on what the text actually says. Well done.

Nope LOL, I don't think I can copyright that, it is just common language, and I wouldn't do it if I could.

Brother, the number 40 appears often in Scripture, but the Bible never defines it as a prophetic law or a measure of a generation. Luke 13 is a parable about Israel’s need to repent during Jesus’ ministry, not a coded timeline leading to AD 70. The New Testament never defines “this generation”...

Thank you, brother. Yes, the atonement accomplished at the Cross is applied to us by faith, but the work itself was finished in that moment. That’s why I find the distinction between His incarnate mission and His broader earthly ministry helpful. What He came to do in the flesh was completed...

Brother, the entire argument depends on Matthew 1:1 referring to a 70‑year time span, but the word there is not genea, the word for a generation of people. It is genesis, the word for origin, lineage, or genealogy. Matthew is introducing the ancestry of Christ, not a prophetic window. Once that...

When Jesus cried “It is finished,” He was not ending His earthly mission in the broad sense, because He still had work to do on earth after the resurrection and before His ascension. What He finished was His incarnate mission, the mission while He walked the earth, the work the Father gave Him...

Interesting, I have never heard of this. However, Schweitzer never taught that Jesus believed He had failed. The Greek word Tetelestai means ‘completed’ or ‘accomplished,’ not ‘I failed.’ Jesus repeatedly predicted His own death and said He laid down His life willingly. ‘It is finished’ is the...

A good observation and a good connection of completeness. I also see the ‘It is done’ in Revelation 21:6. Not that I disagree with the connection at all, but they represent two different times and two different accomplishments, one completing His earthly ministry, the other completing His...

A question: "It is finished:" John 19:30. What is your understanding? What do you see in Christ’s final cry? ~Tony

Helping people understand Scripture in its proper context is vital, and it sounds like you’ve invested a great deal of time in guiding those students.

The Violence of the Tongue We speak often of the violence of this world. We condemn the sword of Islam. We condemn the bomb, the knife, and the gun when they are used for ungodly and unlawful violence, and the terror that destroys bodies. And we should condemn it. These things are evil. They...

Thank you for sharing that. Helping people see Scripture as a whole instead of in fragments is important, and it sounds like you’ve found a method that works well for him.

Radiometric dating is often spoken of as if scientists are reading a clock that has been ticking since the beginning of time. But no one wound the clock. No one set the starting time. No one watched the first tick. No one observed the decay from the beginning. The method does not begin with...

And yet there it is.