Purity Culture: What Do We Teach

There are a lot of people writing about Purity Culture and how 'harmful' it is. In some cases, what is actually taught in this culture can be harmful. There are many people with different ideas talking about having their church's teens remain sexually pure. Different people with different ideas can get confusing especially when a …

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Is The Purity Culture Bad

Today, we are going to go through the content of Dr. Michael Brown's article called What’s so bad about encouraging female modesty? We will stick to addressing the content only. We are not sure why Protestia does not like this man and every time we ask, no one tells us anything. However, sometimes he has …

Is Peter Really Behind Mark’s Gospel?

This is the question that Dr. Fred Baltz asked in an article published in the Patterns of Evidence Newsletter. It is a good question in the sense people do want to know who actually wrote the different gospels. While we would answer this question in the positive, we would also ask another one. Does it …

Our Apologies

We had to take the post- The Love of Jesus- private for now. It was written for a client who did not pay us for our work and he did not accept the article. The client has subsequently apologized and taken a look at it. If he does accept it, we will have to take …

The love of Jesus

The Bible tells us That we are to love one another as Jesus loved us. That can be a daunting task as most people apply their concept of love to those words. When that happens people become confused by what the Bible means when it tells us to love as Jesus loved. Everyone has their …

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This was a man who was very popular during our undergrad days. We heard a lot about him and read his book The Cost of Discipleship. The book is great but one has to be careful of elevating different men to high status within the Christian world. What brings Mr. Bonhoeffer to mind today is …

Saturdays Off

We usually try to take Saturdays off. We work 6 days a week and in our spare time we create posts for both this site and http://www.theoarch.wordpress.com The work can get overwhelming at times and we are not always successful at taking Saturday off. Today we get that opportunity

A Word of Advice

Having aministry in the technological age can be a bit daunting.Not only are there many different rules to obey, the people who own those websites may not agree with your point of view. The end result is that you get banned or blocked from posting on those sites. We certainly have and one of thelessons …

Our Ravi Zacharias Articles

We did not realize that we started writing about this controversy so long ago. Then we realized that we did not always place Mr. Zacharias' name in the titles. So to help those who are struggling over this issue or those who want to hear the other side of the story, we are placing the …

Picking a Leader

The Bible says" It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do." (1 Tim. 3:1). Then Paul goes into the qualifications to be a pastor or an elder in the church. Desire alone is not the qualification needed to be a minister …