Posts Tagged ‘bible’
News
Poll: Americans love the Bible but don’t read it much
More than half of Americans think the Bible has too little influence on a culture they see in moral decline, yet only one in five Americans read the Bible on a regular basis, according to a new survey.
Apologetics
Are There Inaccuracies & Contradictions in The Bible?
Divinely inspired and humanly written, the Bible is filled with accounts of events, names, places, and dates that are continually demonstrated as accurate by archaeological study. Yet some argue that Scripture contains errors a...
Featured Columns
Word from Scotland: Introducing the Sermon on the Mount
Having completed a series of studies in the Gospel of John, I was about to embark on the book of Revelation, when I thought we should take a few weeks to read and study what is called, “The Sermon on the Mount."
Apologetics
Who Is The Holy Spirit According to Scripture?
The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. References to the Holy Spirit are numerous in the Bible. The Holy Spirit is coequal and coeternal with God the Father and God the Son in every divine attribute. Each works dif...
Christian Living
Can God Really Forgive All My Sins?
This question usually comes from wounded hearts. People feel guilty for what they’ve done, and they’re sure they have crossed the line. Forgiveness is for other people, they think, not for them. After what they̵...
News
Alcoholics Anonymous wrestles with its spiritual roots
For Alcoholics Anonymous to continue helping addicts find freedom in sobriety, the 75-year-old organization has to reclaim its spiritual roots.
That’s the message coming from reformers who say the group has drifted from core...
Apologetics
Question of the week: What does sola scriptura mean?
The phrase sola scriptura is from the Latin:sola having the idea of “alone,” “ground,” “base,” and the word scriptura meaning “writings”—referring to the Scriptures. Sola scripturameans that Scripture alone is authoritative for...
Arts & Culture
The ‘Untouchables’ come to NRB 2013 in Nashville
The Dalits, also known as the “untouchables” and “outcastes,” make up nearly one quarter of India’s 1.2 billion people. There are an estimated 250 million Dalits and they make up history’s longest-standing oppressed people group.
Christian Living
Keeping the Faith: Hard Grace
Instead of looking at the who picture, people often get caught up in minutiae when it comes to things in the Bible.
Arts & Culture
Herod the Great exhibition opens in Jerusalem
For the first time ever, Herod the Great has become the subject of an extraordinary exhibition at the Israel Museum entitled “The Kings Final Journey.”