Library of Articles

A preacher told of a street evangelist who asked drivers at a red light whether they believed Jesus is the Son of God, and took a yes for a convert. The question is Scripture and the answer is true. This study sets out what the kingdom was told to believe, what Paul says to believe, and what a yes to that one question does not show.

Believers ache for a past that was more moral and more Christian, and grieve a covenant they believe the nation broke. But the remembered age never existed as remembered, no Gentile nation was ever in covenant with God, and Scripture rebukes the longing itself. A look at nostalgia, the Christian nation, and the post God actually gave you.

Can belief be forced? This article examines how belief forms, what sustains it, and why it cannot be manufactured by pressure or technique. It moves through Paul's methods of reasoning, the evidence for man's guilt and God's grace, the role of illumination, and the believer's ongoing warfare of faith.

Both soul winning and witnessing are borrowed from programs that do not belong to the Body of Christ. This article examines Paul's actual commission and vocabulary for declaring the gospel of grace, and why neither term captures what he was actually doing.

Acts 20:20 does not teach door-to-door cold-call outreach. Paul reasoned in synagogues, public spaces, and rented halls. This article examines what Paul actually did, what his epistles command regarding conduct toward unbelievers, and why the visitation night tradition is not found in his letters.