“How does this man [Jesus] know letters, since he has never learned?” (John 7:15). This text has puzzled many Bible students? How could Christ have so amazed the multitudes with his teaching if he had “never learned”? Study this passage with us.

Are multiple cups (containers) prohibited in the distribution of the “fruit of the vine” during the Lord’s day communion service? Some sincere folks so contend, but what does the evidence actually indicate? Study this question with us.

Wayne Jackson reflects on his past and aspirations for the future, in this endeavor.

How amazing it is that the deep and manifold longings of the antique pagan world were so wonderfully satisfied in the advent of God’s Messiah.

If you could plan a message to be delivered at your own funeral, of what would it consist? You might want to give some thought to this question.

A recent writer sought to “analyze” Joseph, and has given us one more example of “science” gone askew.

If one believes in the ultimate conquest of good over evil, he can see, even in factiousness, something of the good, the positive, and the noble.

In a micro-exclamation of praise, Paul has captured the whole of redemptive history — Heaven’s operations on behalf of Adam’s fallen children. It yet leaves us stunned!

The faithful Paul viewed his persecutions as the providential workings of God in the defending of the gospel message.

There are three characteristics of love evident in the Apostle John’s inspired statement.

The New Testament was originally written in Koine Greek. Koine is to be distinguished from Attic Greek, the latter being predominantly the language of the ancient classics (e.g., Aristotle, Herodot...

Why coal is a bad witness in the case for evolution.

Someone has said that you can tell something of the character of a person by the heroes he has. There may be something to that. Atheism extols hypocrisy.

No, it does not. Rather, Luke testifies to the voluntary, loving, and selfless disposition of Christians in Jerusalem:

““Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and n...

Biblical scholars have catalogued more than three hundred amazing prophecies that find precise fulfillment in the life and labor of the Son of God. One of these predictive declarations is found in Daniel 9:24-27, commonly referred to as the prophecy of “Daniel’s Seventy Weeks.”

Paul’s discussion of the “inner man” implies a facet of human existence that transcends the material.

Consider these two points gleaned from Paul’s confrontation with the apostle Peter.

The book of Malachi states that Jacob was “loved” by God, yet his brother Esau was “hated.” This week’s Margin Notes deals with the use of such language.

Law is a mandate that is designed to regulate procedure; it proceeds from a superior, who possesses authority to rule, to a subordinate. Law is viewed from several angles in the Scriptures. (a) The...

Only the truth gives hope — real hope — and, as the American poet Wallace Rice put it, “hope is the patent medicine for disease, disaster, and sin.” In this article, Jason Jackson surveys several biblical expressions in which the word “hope” appears. These phrases teach us about the Christian’s future.