Persecution Brings New Meaning to Scriptures

Not every passage of scripture found in the Bible but a few key ones that many believers often ignore or misuse in order to enjoy this world as it is. These passages are all well known and teach us how we should view this world we live in. What sparked our attention, was not only …

It is Not Just Preachers & Pastors

When we were in our teens our youth group had a church member speak to us one Friday night and even after all these years we remember his main point- "Be a student. Don't read just one book on a subject but read two" Of course, he was also meaning to read more than two. …

Was Jesus’ Home Discovered?

You may have already heard about this discovery - Jesus' possible home-  and if you have been a long term reader of this website, you know what we think of this claim already. A stone and mortar building under a convent in Nazareth, Israel, may have been Jesus’ home while under Joseph’s tutelage, according to …

We Have Started

A new series over at our sister site. It builds on the food for thought series we ran here for many years. The series includes a new topic Origins and we have posted 4 distinct articles on the different origin of things. We are not talking about the universe or Genesis 1 in that series …

Our Books Are Now At Amazon

It took a while to get done as Amazon rejected our other publisher’s attempts to list our books on this marketplace. Now you can enjoy our books through Amazon’s website. They are only available on Kindle right now. We will be working on adding a paperback version later this week but no promises. The last …

The Pastor: Numbers 18

This is an interesting chapter in the Bible as it lays out God's instructions to Aaron and his fellow temple priests. While there is no direct statement connecting this chapter and the way the NT church is set up, I find that there is some correlation between the two. If you look at how Jesus …

Youth Pastor

We decided to look up the origin of youth pastor and we were surprised when there were no historical accounts as to when that pastoral office was originally created. There were many results for the history of the youth ministry but those tended to stop in the late 1940s, early 50s or one had it …

Pastoral Leadership

The main reason we started this blog, an information website (now gone), and a discussion forum  (now gone) many years ago was that we felt called to work with ministers, missionaries and church leaders. These three grooups are not the easiest people to work with for many reasons better left for another time. We may …

We Noticed Something

We just checked our books for sale page and noticed that only the regular price is showing. The 4 e-books at the top #1. Archaeology: What You need to Know— $3.99 #2. Noah’s Flood Did Take Place: An Examination of the Non Scientific Evidence— $3.99 #3. The Future of Biblical Archaeology—$5.99 #4. The Church & …

Lessons From Nehemiah Chapter 5

One of the first things we notice in this chapter is that even with a pure-hearted endeavor as Nehemiah’s there are those who oppress the less fortunate people in the country. “The people complain of oppression.-V. 1. There arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews, i.e., …