by John R. Gentry No greater question has ever entered the mind of any person!  And no greater quest has been pursued than the answer to this important question!  What must I do to be saved?  Have you ever asked that question?  If not, why not?  How do you think this question can be answered?  [...]

by John R. Gentry And they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.  Neh. 8.8 What should a preacher preach?  “Preach the word” (2 Tim. 4.2).  You would think this was a no-brainer, but unfortunately “the word” is seldom heard from [...]

by Justin Monts Though one at first glance might expect this to be an article better suited for last week’s Valentine’s Day, it actually isn’t even close.  Here I plan to take up a statement used time and again in our religious world.  That statement is simply: “I just know in my heart.” Many well [...]

by David Dann The apostle Peter writes that Christians are to behave in this world “as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God” (1 Pet. 2.16).  While the New Testament employs several different Greek terms which are translated as “liberty” in English versions of the Bible, “liberty” [...]

by Larry Ray Hafley Calvinism tells us three things.  (1) Man is born in sin. This is the doctrine of total, hereditary depravity.  Total means all, whole or complete.  Hereditary means one receives it from his parents, which in this case means from Adam, hence, adamic, original sin.  Depravity means bad, wicked, evil.  Thus, every [...]

by John R. Gentry I may love my hunting dog, but I don’t love her near as much as I love my wife!  Because I love my wife more than my dog, there are things I will do for my wife that I will not do for my dog.  How much do you love the [...]

by John R. Gentry Because Jesus Said So. In Matthew’s record of Jesus’ first sermon, the Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 5–7, Jesus mentioned heaven 21 times.  For example, in Matthew 5.11 and 12 we read, “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you [...]

by John R. Gentry And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.  (1 Cor. 4.6, KJV) It [...]

by John R. Gentry The writer of Hebrews said, “it is appointed for man to die …” (Hebrews 9.27).  The Psalmist asked, “What man can live and never see death?  Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol (place of the dead—JRG)?”  Some day we will all die.  But what will happen to [...]

by John R. Gentry What do you think of when you hear the word church?  The word church is used in many different ways by people today.  The word church is defined as those called out for a specific purpose.  It simply means the people whom Jesus has called by the gospel: “To this he [...]