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Children in the Church

The Bible speaks of several different groups of people: youth, young men/women, sons/daughters, and children. Nowhere do we find corporate responsibility for children, nor an expectation for children to be instructed apart from the family unit. For young men, the story is different. It should go without saying, but young men are men, not children. When is the transition from childhood to…

Savior of the body

Having finished a two-part study on what it means to be a help meet, we now turn to the biblical role that God has outlined for husbands. Ephesians 5 We’ll use Ephesians 5:22-33 as our outline: Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ…

What is a Help Meet? — part 2

In part 1 of this series, we looked at the Biblical usage of the word help. In this second part, we’ll look at the word meet. Meet as a verb The reader is encouraged to look up each time the word meet is used in scripture, and read each of the verses. We are going to focus on the use of meet…

What is a help meet? — Part 1

Note: The following is essentially Bible study notes, and is terse in places. The reader is encouraged to use it as a springboard for their own deeper study on the subject. Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.19 And out of the ground…

In the Image of God

What does the Bible mean when it says that man was made in the image of God? Does this refer to man’s faculties, such as his mind and emotions? Or does it refer to his physical form? Download this PDF of a Bible study covering all of the verses in the Bible that use the words “image” or “likeness”.

Genesis 38

Genesis 38 takes a seemingly unwarranted departure from the story of Joseph to give us an all-too-intimate account of Judah’s personal affairs. Why is Judah’s personal life important enough to spill right in the middle of an unrelated larger narrative? While the interlude seems out of place, the prominence of Judah and his family lineage in the later history of Israel shows…

The rest of the parable of the prodigal son

The Parable Luke 15:11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted…

A Wicked and Adulterous Generation

In previous articles we have considered how in the last days many will turn from Jesus to seek another “christ,” one who will not condemn their wickedness. They will scoff at the idea that Jesus is still coming back after all this time, since there has been no sign of his return, no judgment poured out on the wicked. Earlier this week,…

Scoffers in the Last Days

2 Peter 3 A while back I briefly expounded 2 Peter 3 in context of signs of the end. It teaches that at the end men will point to the absence of signs as proof that Jesus is not returning. Peter didn’t contradict the claim of an absence of signs, but instead pointed out the fact that God can and will bring…