Marital abuse, whether or not it involves physical violence, is very different. One key difference is that marital abuse is a one-sided, oppressive relationship where one spouse establishes a pattern of …

Jesus linked repentance with salvation (Matthew 4:17; Luke 13:3; 17:3). In Acts 2:38, the term repentance includes the element of faith. Paul in Ephesus preached turning “to God in repentance” …

After Jesus had declared that He would build His church on the truth of Peter’s noble confession, He went on to say, “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be …

Answers to Tough Questions About God and Life

Are Today’s Jews the Physical Descendants of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the Israelite Tribes?

Unconditional forgiveness is canceling a debt to all those who intentionally offend us, whether or not they own up to what they have done. Offering forgiveness without repentance, however, does not …

Does the passage about the rich young ruler teach that Jesus expects His followers to give up all of their possessions to follow Him?

The Apocrypha were a subset of a larger group of popular religious writings that the Jews of the first century called “outside books.” They were written between 200 BC and 100 AD, and while not …

In Romans 9:13, we read that God loved Jacob but hated Esau. Some people think this means that God actively chose Jacob to go to heaven and Esau to go to hell. The word hated didn’t have the same m…

What was the “thorn” that Paul referred to in 2 Corinthians 12:7? We do not know exactly what the affliction was that Paul called his “thorn in the flesh.” It probably was a physical malady. There is …