It is often surprising how few seem to know why the New Testament epistles, and we would say the Gospel of John as well, were written. In the main, with the exception of Philemon, they were written to expose false teachers, false teachings, and bad behavior – while also laying down correct doctrine and proper […]

As human beings, we cannot know the heart of another. We certainly do not know someone’s spiritual condition as it relates to the Lord. However, determining whether individual Progressives are Christian is a completely different question than determining if Progressive Christianity is Christian. This is hardly a new issue. In his excellent 1923 book, Christianity […]

(This originally appeared in the Winter 2002 edition of the MCOI Journal) In the July 1, 1994 WATCHTOWER, page 5, under the heading “Wheat and Weeds,” there appears this interesting statement: “Jesus Christ himself taught that true Christianity would temporarily disappear from view.” Did Jesus truly teach that in time true Christians would “disappear from […]

In the daily course of answering questions by email, phone, and in person, related to matters of faith, we invariably have to begin with the reminder that: A text, without a context, is a pretext Sometimes the issue is the historical-grammatical context of a passage of Scripture. Other times it is a narrative or story […]

I have been deeply disturbed by the events that have unfolded in Minneapolis in recent weeks and the apparent disregard for the rule of law. I am very sad about the deaths of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti not only because it was an avoidable tragedy, but because the growing Gnosticism in the Evangelical […]