If the Scripture is anything, it is congruent. That is to say, the Word of God is in agreement, or in harmony, with itself. The Bible is unified, foremost, around the central story of the Messiah of God, Who is, of course, Jesus (Yeshua) of Nazareth. On the first Easter Sunday, two of our Lord’s disciples were privileged to walk the Emmaus road with the newly resurrected Saviour, Who, “beginning at Moses and all the prophets,…expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself” (Luke 24:27).[1] Jesus went on to say, “These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was y ..read more

In our drab and degenerate, postmodern age of subjective “truth,” the once-vibrant colors of the painter’s palette of absolutes have run and blended into fifty shades of unappealing gray relativism. Ours is an incredulous generation—asking, as did Pilate of old, “What is truth?” (John 18:38).[1] Pilate’s skepticism came on the heels of Jesus’ claim that He came into this world in order to “bear witness unto the truth” (John 18:37). That conversation (some two millennia ago) and ours today are practically the same. As Henry observed, “The modern crisis of truth and word is not something histori ..read more

The Bible teaches many things, and alludes to many different people, historical accounts, and circumstances, and yet, one clear and central theme emanates from its pages from beginning to end. The Bible’s overarching purpose is the glory of God throughout all ages, as generally seen in all of God’s Creation, and specifically taught in the manifestation of God’s own Son, Jesus Christ. This is especially the case with the redemption story that Jesus brings for God’s glory through His own vicarious, sacrificial death on Calvary’s Cross for all who will believe. This concept of glory through the C ..read more

God created a finely tuned universe. Take, for example, God’s amazing invention called water. Water, as we know, is essential to all organic life forms in one way or another. We couldn’t live without it. But one of the unique traits about water is that it is denser in a liquid state than in a solid form. That is, the H2O molecules are more densely packed together (and thus “heavier”) as water (liquid), and more loosely packed together (and thus “lighter,” because there is more empty space between each molecule) when forming ice (a solid). This buoyancy is the reas ..read more

There was a time in the Apostle Paul’s life when he had been arrested by Roman soldiers out of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. He was tied up and made ready to scourge, “and as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned? When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman. Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea. And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I ..read more

Christian apologist Alex McFarland defines “truth” as that which corresponds to reality, which is to say that our beliefs must be founded upon facts. Facts keep the real world running. Consider the constancy of gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear forces, mathematics, the periodic chart of the elements, the law of the harvest, the biological certainties of reproduction (i.e. DNA), and many other things. Yet, far from standing upon the bedrock of facts, modern man seems to be carried away in the fluidity of a post-modern river of relative thinking. Ever trying (but never able) to get his fee ..read more

The Roman Procurator Pontius Pilate (AD 26-36), while sitting as judge on the crucifixion case of Jesus Christ, lamented, “What is truth?” (John 18:38). Pilate’s question, whether reflective or rhetorical, was given in response to Jesus’ own words of explanation in the preceding verse, “To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.” Jesus further attests that, “Every one that is of the truth heareth [His] voice” (John 18:37), implying that those who follow Him (called His “sheep” in John 10:16 and ..read more

Angels are, seemingly, everywhere.  They are in movies, TV programs, songs, books, magazines, art, and even in people’s dreams/imaginations. But in addition to the popular culture, angels are found throughout the pages of the Bible. A search of the KJV1900 resource in Logos Bible Software (ver. 8.16), using the parameters {Label Supernatural Being WHERE Type ~ "Angel"}, returns 1,127 hits in 500 verses.[1] The results occur in no less than 37 of the 66 books of the Bible.[2] Nearly half of the total occurrences are found in these four books alone: Genesis (96 hits in 4 ..read more

Evolution has no answer for the transcendent laws of mathematics. Take, for example, the famous golden ratio, represented by the Greek letter Phi (?). This ratio, commonly called the Fibonacci number, can be expressed as: ? = (1+√5)/2 = 1.61803398874989484820... This number, occurring seemingly everywhere in God’s creation, has been known since very ancient times. Mathematicians love it for its simplicity, purity, and transcendent properties. Just as the number Pi (? = 3.141592653589793...) describes the relationship between the circumference and the diameter of a circ ..read more

“In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” – Judges 21:25             For 37 years (1961-1998), Jim McKay hosted ABC’s Wide World of Sports. “The thrill of victory...and the agony of defeat” became a national catchphrase. Everyone wants victory. Nobody wants defeat.             Joshua is a book of victory. Under Joshua, Israel followed the Lord (Judges 2:7; Joshua 1:16-18). But when Joshua died, it seems that Israel buried God, too ..read more