Joel Osteen: Whatever Happened to Sin? - God’s Truth vs. Our Spin - God’s love is far greater than being nice. He tells us the truth. First, he tells us about our condition as dead in trespasses and sins. We are not good people who could do better, but those who are in ourselves incapable of meeting God’s righteous standard.
by Michael S. Horton

Particular Redemption - Particular redemption is one of the most documented subjects in the Bible, but the most contested. It is referred to also as "Limited Atonement"; not that it is limited in what it accomplishes, but only in the scope of it. Limited to those for whom it was intended.
by Doyle D. Dewberry

What Does Grow in Grace Mean - Grace is unmerited favor of God, and is related to and signifid by holiness, the fruit and effect of God's grace. Thus the exhortation to grow in grace is a beautiful, instructive way of saying, grow in holiness, advance in piety. True, there is a sense in which a believer may grow in the favor of God, as well as in its effects.
by John A. James

How To Interpret The Bible - How are we to interpret scripture? We aren’t interested in any man-made methods here. Does the Bible itself tell us how it is to be interpreted? Surely, since God gave us a book, he also provided principals in that book to tell us how to interpret it.
by James M. Frye

What is the Gospel? - The crucifixion of Christ appeared to be the greatest miscarriage of justice the world has ever witnessed, but the purpose of it was that the sins of God's people were being punished in Him, to the end that His people might be saved. This is the good news of the Gospel.
by Doyle D. Dewberry

What Are the Gates of Hell that Shall Not Prevail? - A lot of Christians will subconsciously reverse this passage and understand it as, Hell will not prevail against the gates of the Church. What Are the Gates of Hell or Hades that shall not prevail, and what is it really representing?
by Tony Warren

What does the Bible have to say about Ethnicity - The unbelieving world can only try with exceedingly little success to educate, cajole, legislate and force into existence the international and so called inter-racial peace of which it dreams. However, those who come to God by this living Way of salvation experience the blessed reality!
by Keith Graham

Is Arminianism a Different Gospel - Is Arminianism the true gospel with brothers in error, or is it a different gospel from the true gospel, and thus not a part of the true Church? The seriousness and extent of Arminian thinking is not something insignificant.
by Rev. Eric Kampen

A Christian Lesson On Peer Pressure - Peer pressure is when we feel compelled to act a certain way because we want to fit or be accepted. Nobody wants to be the person who gets talked about or laughed at. Unfortunately, sometimes we lose focus of who we really are because it becomes more important to us to just fit in, especially when we're young.
by Rena Furbert

Sunmissive Wives - In seeking a biblical understanding of the wife's role within the home, the question of the wife's role of submission toward's her husband arises. To what extent should that submission be, and is it unqualified? Is the wife to submit to everything the husband desires, even if those desires involve sinful actions?
by David W. Roth

Is Birth Control Biblical - Is it biblical for Christians to practice birth control? The historical witness of all Churches and denominations has been a unanimous no. So why are so many theologians supporting birth control today? This study asks the questions, and gives the "not so popular" answers.
by Tony Warren

Changing Attitudes of Ireland versus the Unchanging Word of Christ - There are those who try to deceive the reader that it is the will of Jesus Christ that gays and lesbians be "fully affirmed" as members of His church. On the contrary, Christ Himself, speaking by His Spirit through the Apostle Paul (I Cor. 14:37), declares that such sinners are not members of His church (I Cor. 6:9-11; Eph. 5:5-6).
by Martyn McGeown

Can Believers Be Demon Possessed - The doctrine that teaches that believers, although owned by God, can be indwelled by a demon, is not Biblically validated. We are temples of the living God where the Holy Spint indwells us. In this temple, light has no agreement with darkness, and there is no concord between Christ and Belial.
by David Dunlap

Is the NIV the Word of God - I use to believe that the only differences between the NIV and the King James was that the NIV was supposed to be easier to read and to understand. I was wrong! By Grace of God, I looked into the matter further, and this represents some of the information that resulted from that study.
by James M. Frye

Leviticus and Homosexuality - It is true that much of the Law deals with religious activity rather than universal morality. However, ritual purity and moral purity are not always distinct. Moreover, this section was not addressed to the priests, but to all the "sons of Israel," and this isn't merely ritual purity.
by Gregory Koukl

A Brief Defense of Limited Atonement - For whom did Christ die? And what did his death accomplish? If we say that Christ died for everyone and that his death accomplished their salvation, then hell shall be empty and all the children of Adam brought to glory. This conclusion the Bible plainly denies.
by William F. Baldwin

Submissive Slaves - How are we to apply the pinciple of submission (Ephesians 6:5-9) to the relations between slaves and masters? Is the Apostle Paul really teaching that Christian slaves are to obey their masters? There are many well meaning Christians who side step this controversial issue.
by David W. Roth

In Praise of The Prayer of Jabez - After reading the book, hearing people talk about how they are now "using" the prayer, and even examining some complaints against the book, I am compelled to write a few words pastorally in the hope that this biblical prayer will not become a spiritual short-cut or be used in unbiblical ways.
by Rev. A. Joseph Wheat