Bible Study: Letting God Be The Judge
Matthew 7:1–5: Remain in the process of not appointing yourselves as judges, so that you yourselves may not be judged; for by the standard you are continually using to judge, you yourselves will be judged, and by the measure you are measuring out, it will be measured back to you.Why do you keep focusing on…
Bible Study: Crete’s False Confession Problem- Why Titus 1:16 Draws a Hard Line Between Saying and Being
In the closing line of the opening chapter of the Epistle to Titus, the Apostle Paul compresses an entire pastoral crisis into a single sentence, sharp enough to cut through appearances, polite religion, and verbal profession alike. Titus 1:16 is not written as poetry, nor as gentle encouragement, nor even as abstract theology; it is…
The New Heaven and the New Earth
What Scripture Says Comes After History Ends and Eternity Truly Begins For many Christians, the idea of “heaven” is vague, abstract, and often reduced to imagery of clouds, disembodied spirits, or endless worship detached from real life. Scripture, however, presents a far more concrete, embodied, and hopeful vision. The biblical story does not end with…
The Millennial Reign of Christ
Why a Literal Thousand-Year Kingdom Is Necessary, Biblical, and Unavoidable The idea of a future Millennial Reign of Christ is often treated as optional, symbolic, or speculative. In many theological systems, it is minimized or absorbed into broader spiritual language about heaven or the Church age. Yet when Scripture is allowed to speak without being…
Why the Church Is Taken Before the Tribulation
A Biblical Case for the Pre-Tribulation Rapture and Why the Alternatives Collapse Few topics in Christian theology generate as much debate as the timing of the rapture. Pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation, post-tribulation, and other hybrid views are often presented as equally viable options depending on interpretive preference. Yet when Scripture is read carefully, allowing language, audience, and…
Christians Are Told to Watch for Christ, Not Signs
Why the New Testament Directs Believers Toward Expectation Rather Than Calculation In modern Christian conversation, end-times discussion is often dominated by signs. Wars, earthquakes, political instability, global alliances, and social upheaval are frequently treated as indicators believers should be tracking in order to determine where humanity stands on the prophetic timeline. Many Christians have been…
The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ
Why He Died, How Scripture Foretold It, What the Cross Accomplished, and Why Salvation Is Offered to All The death of Jesus Christ is not a tragic interruption in the biblical story. It is the axis on which the entire story turns. From Genesis to the prophets, from the Law to the Psalms, Scripture steadily…
Why Christians Can Give Gifts Without Fear: Scripture, Christmas, and the Error of Pagan Anxiety
Among sincere Christians, there exists a genuine fear that sharing gifts at Christmas compromises faithfulness, that generosity tied to a date might secretly import pagan meaning, or that participation itself signals disobedience. This fear does not arise from rebellion, but from concern for holiness. Yet concern becomes error when it is untethered from Scripture and…
Why Christmas Is Biblically Permissible: Scripture, Memory, and Christian Freedom
The question of whether Christians may rightly celebrate Christmas does not turn on whether Scripture commands the observance of Christ’s birth on a specific date; it turns instead on how Scripture understands remembrance, sacred time, and the freedom of believers to mark God’s saving acts without adding law where none was given. The New Testament…
The Nativity of Christ: Scripture, History, and the Legitimacy of Christian Remembrance
The nativity of Jesus Christ stands at the beginning of the Gospel not merely as a sentimental introduction, but as a theological declaration that God entered human history in flesh, time, and place. The New Testament presents the birth of Christ not as myth or abstraction, but as an event anchored in real geography, political…
The Thorn in the Flesh: What Scripture Actually Says, and Why Paul Would Not Name It
Corinth; December 21th, 2025 Few passages in the New Testament have generated more speculation, conjecture, and inherited assumption than the brief but weighty statement made by Paul the Apostle in 2 Corinthians 12:7, where he speaks of a “thorn in the flesh.” For centuries, readers have filled the silence of the text with medical diagnoses,…
Brad Arnold Speaks Publicly About Christian Faith During Concerts and Personal Health Battle
HERSHEY, Pennsylvania; December 15th, 2025. During recent concert appearances, Brad Arnold, lead singer of the rock band 3 Doors Down, has addressed audiences directly from the stage with statements concerning his Christian faith, doing so in his own recorded words and without intermediary commentary, as documented through publicly available concert footage. Video recordings captured by…
Bible Study: “Faith and Works: One Covenant Life, Not Two Competing Systems”
Scripture never presents ‘faith vs works’ as opposing forces, the conflict only appears when Paul and James are forced to answer the same question; the Bible resolves this question in context, language and purpose. Paul addresses the question, ‘how is a sinner brought into covenant relationship with God?’ Paul is addressing people who…
Devotional: Stewardship of a Changed Heart from a Free Gift
REVELATION 22:17 (Greek Text (NA28)- Καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα καὶ ἡ νύμφη λέγουσιν· Ἔρχου. καὶ ὁ ἀκούων εἰπάτω· Ἔρχου. καὶ ὁ διψῶν ἐρχέσθω, ὁ θέλων λαβέτω ὕδωρ ζωῆς δωρεάν. Transliteration Kai to Pneuma kai hē nymphē legousin· Erchou. kai ho akouōn eipatō· Erchou. kai ho dipsōn erchesthō, ho thelōn labe tō hydōr zōēs dōrean. “And…
It is Finished
Buckhannon, WV; December 11th, 2025 When Jesus cried ‘Eloi, Eloi, lama shabaqtani,’ he wasn’t expressing abandonment (as some may try to suggest), because the Hebrew word (azavtani) and the Aramaic word (shabaqtani) mean ‘to hand over, permit, or allow; it does not mean to reject; the Greek (also) conveys this as an ongoing action, ‘why…
The Double-Souled Person
Buckhannon, WV; December 10th, 2025 James 1:5-6 NIV- If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and…
Why Me Lord?
Buckhannon WV, December 9th If failure disqualified people the Bible would be 3 pages long; Peter denied Jesus with cussing: Jesus didn’t fire him, he made him a Shepherd (John 21:15-19); Paul LITERALLY murdered Christians: Jesus said, ‘He is my chosen instrument’ (Acts 9:15); David committed adultery and murder: God still called him ‘a man…
The Danger of Stagnant Water
December 7, 2025 Today, our Pastor talked about Jesus being our Bethlehem Well and spoke about the fact that, if we’re to keep the living water, that Jesus provides, to ourselves, then we will become stagnant. I would like to expand on that thought in this article, as I think a deep dive and…
The Corinthian Problem
December 7, 2025 1 Corinthians 1:10-13 “I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, through the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all remain in the process of speaking the same thing, that there not continue being divisions among you, but that you remain in the process of being made complete in the same…
WHAT GENESIS 1–3 ACTUALLY SAYS ABOUT CREATION AND HUMANITY
BUCKHANNON, WV — December 5, 2025When discussing creation, human identity, or early biblical history, many ideas come from tradition or cultural influence. But the earliest available first-hand written material describing the origin of the world is found in THE BOOK OF GENESIS. Using only the text itself, and the historical world in which it was…
BEING PERFECTED: WHAT SCRIPTURE ACTUALLY MEANS
BUCKHANNON, WV — The word perfect carries heavy weight in modern Christian conversation. For many believers, it sounds like a demand to reach flawlessness, sinlessness, or moral precision. But when we let Scripture interpret Scripture, stay inside the original languages, and remove any denominational filters, a very different message emerges. In the Bible, being perfected…
BIBLICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, AND WHY SCRIPTURE TEACHES A FIXED, BINARY HUMAN DESIGN
BUCKHANNON, WV — When a pastor makes a public doctrinal claim from the pulpit, especially about identity, embodiment, or God’s design: Christians have a responsibility to test that claim against the Scriptures themselves. Not modern interpretations, no denominational filters, no manmade traditions, not political pressures, not cultural trends, but the text as it appears in…
SPIRITUAL WARFARE IN EPHESUS: WHY PAUL CONFRONTED A CITY THAT BELIEVED HOSTILE GODS FILLED THE SKY
Buckhannon, West Virginia — Appalachian Post When the Apostle Paul wrote in Ephesians 6:12 that the Christian struggle “is not against flesh and blood,” he addressed a worldview deeply rooted in ancient Ephesus. The people of that city believed the air above them, the “heavenly realms”, was populated by dangerous spiritual beings capable of influencing…
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