Proverbs 27:19 Explained: What Your Heart Reveals
Proverbs 27:19 compares what a heart reveals about a person to a face reflected in water. That raises a question for me: how does…
Explore Salvation and Redemption
Choose a study below and keep following the subject through Scripture.
Read Study
Ambassadors for Christ: What Does 2 Corinthians 5 Mean?
What does Paul mean when he calls himself and his coworkers ambassadors for Christ? We need to understand the authority they were given before…
John 6:44: What Does It Mean That the Father Draws?
What does Jesus mean when He says that no one can come to Him unless the Father draws him? Some read the verse as…
The Book of Galatians: Christ Alone and Christian Freedom
Why did Paul speak so sharply to churches that already believed in Jesus? Teachers were pressing them to add circumcision and the Mosaic Law…
Calvinism Examined: Do the Five Points Match Scripture?
Calvinism can sound convincing because it insists that sinners cannot save themselves and that grace deserves all the glory. I agree with those truths,…
The Bronze Serpent: How It Points to Jesus on the Cross
God told Moses to raise a bronze serpent among people who were dying from snakebites, with the promise that anyone bitten would live when…
The Peace of God: How Christ Gives Peace in Troubled Times
I think we do people a disservice when we speak as though trusting God should make grief or anxiety disappear. A believer can trust…
The Mercy Seat: What It Was and How It Points to Christ
The mercy seat was the cover of the ark, but that description alone does not explain why it had such an important place in…
What Is Salvation? A Biblical Study of Grace, Faith, and Security
If I have wronged someone, doing a good deed for somebody else does not undo it. Even if I behave differently tomorrow, I still…
Eternal Conscious Torment: What Does the Bible Really Teach?
What does the Bible say finally happens to a person who rejects Jesus Christ? To answer that, we need to distinguish a person’s conscious…
Crushing the Serpent’s Head: Genesis 3:15 Explained
Genesis 3:15 is only one verse, but I keep coming back to how far its promise reaches. God spoke it just after sin entered…
Water in the Bible: Its Meaning, Symbolism, and Purpose
Water sustains life, but Scripture also records occasions when it brought death. The flood and Israel's crossing of the Red Sea cannot be explained…