We have one more important topic related to the end times that we must talk about. It is perhaps the most important of all the topics. Taking a look at the tribulation of Matthew 24 and seeing it as the vindication of Jesus, and the rapture of 1 Thessalonians and seeing it as... [More]

The other day I met a man and we struck up a conversation about kids. He had some hard and fast thoughts on the dos and don’ts of childrearing. While he has some nephews and nieces, he didn’t yet have any kids of his own. (It always strikes me as interesting that people without... [More]

The expectations of New Testament Christians was that the day if the Lord would come within their lifetime, so much so that people in the Thessalonian Church were afraid that their loved ones who had already died would miss it altogether. This fear is what prompts Paul to write... [More]

If you don’t get the details of the end times right, it’s not going to keep you out of heaven. Nonetheless, it will impact the way you live today. One of the ways it impacts you is with respect to your view of Christ. People in America today tend to view Jesus in a variety... [More]

Over the past few months and weeks particularly, I have been reading from various views of the end times and I can say this. It is a humbling task. There seem to be good and persuasive arguments for contradictory perspectives. What are we to make of it all? In the next several... [More]

Through the Apostle John, God tells us how to live the life of faith and how to know without a doubt that we are living that life.  It’s pretty simple, really.  Love one another.  Jesus put it that simply in John 15:17: “This is my command, love one another.”  He prefaced... [More]

This past Sunday we talked about the antichrist from 1 John chapters 2 and 4. We observed in 1 John 2:18 that John makes reference to antichrist in the singular and in the plural. At the time of John’s writing the antichrist (singular) has yet to come (is coming), while antichrists... [More]