When We Understand The Text
Gabriel Hughes 
On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed to the door of the church in Wittenburg, Germany, his ninety-five theses, a list of arguments calling out the corrupt practices of the Roman Catholic church. This marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, an effort to reform the church and recover the gospel. But why did …
Papal infallibility is the belief that the Pope is incapable of error when speaking from his position of supreme apostolic authority in defining doctrine concerning faith or morals. This doesn’t mean the Pope is sinless (although plenty of Catholics do believe that). Rather, it means that his teaching is perfect whenever he speaks ex …
Romans 4:5 says, “To the one who does not work but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness.” Justification by faith alone is the gospel, the belief that we are forgiven our sins and made innocent before God by the atoning blood of Jesus Christ and His resurrection …
Once again, neither a lunar nor a solar eclipse is a sign of judgment, no matter what these loony false prophets say. Mark Blitz on the Jim Bakker Show: “Because the Gentiles go by the sun for their calender, a solar eclipse represents judgment coming upon a nation. A lunar eclipse, because Israel goes …
An eclipse has never been a sign of any prophecy. You will not find eclipses as signs of judgment anywhere in the Bible. False prophet Jonathan Cahn, bestselling author of the Harbinger, loves pointing to signs in the sky, but even he admits they have no prophetic significance. “The solar eclipse. Can God do …
President Josiah Bartlet on the television show The West Wing, from season 2, episode 3: “I like how you call homosexuality an abomination [Leviticus 18:22]. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I have you here. I’m interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She’s …
Hey, have you heard? The polar ice caps are melting! We’re all going to drown! Aaaahhh! Wait, God already said He wasn’t going to do that again (Genesis 9:11). But the consumer-driven church still gets sucked into phony environmentalism, which has been branded “Creation Care.” Zondervan has published the Green Bible, which teaches us …
Chester Bennington, lead singer of the band Linkin Park, who sold over 70 million albums, died of suicide at the age of 41. Chris Cornell, lead singer of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, sold more than 30 million albums worldwide. He hung himself at the age of 52. Story after story of rock stars …
According to a story in The New York Times, “Prayer by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found.” The study was conducted for nearly a decade, involving more than 1,800 patients. Whether or not the patients were prayed for, or …
Matthew Vines is the founder of The Reformation Project, which has nothing to do with the protestant reformation. It’s an attempt to “reform church teaching on sexual orientation and gender identity.” Vines authored a book entitled God and the Gay Christian in which he attempts to argue that God is actually for homosexuality. In …
If you watch porn, and know you need to stop looking at nude people and masturbating to them, there’s a simple solution for ending this lurid obsession with the flesh. You won’t have to take notes or remember some cutesy acronym. Here it is: Stop looking at porn. It’s that simple, and you know …
The Bible says those who practice sexual immorality will not inherit the kingdom of God, but will be cast into eternal fire. “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, …