This is the body of the article before the FAQ section. It explains the topic in some detail. Tough Questions, Honest Answers Does Scripture actually forbid this? Yes, clearly. The New Testament calls it porneia and warns against it consistently (1 Corinthians 6:18; Hebrews 13:4). The design of marriage is a public, lifelong covenant. What…
Most of us quietly believe it. But is it actually true? And will it hold up when it most needs to? Let’s be honest—most of us live with a quiet confidence that we’re, at bottom, decent people. We’re not violent. We care about our families. We help where we can. We feel genuine remorse when…
These statements by Jesus are puzzling—even provoking. Jesus, the eternal Word through whom all things were made (John 1:3), tells His listeners plainly: “The Son can do nothing of His own accord, but only what He sees the Father doing” (John 5:19). And later in the same chapter: “I can do nothing on my own”…
Few phrases in the New Testament stop a reader cold quite like this one. Writing to Timothy in Ephesus, the apostle Paul declares he has “handed over to Satan” two men—Hymenaeus and Alexander. The verse makes modern readers instinctively recoil. Is this a curse? A final abandonment? Is Paul writing these men off forever? The…
We’ve thought about it. The neighbour we keep meaning to have over. The new family at church who always stands alone after the service. The colleague who mentioned, almost in passing, that she doesn’t really know anyone in the city yet.
We meant to do something about it. But the week got busy. The house isn’t quite ready. Maybe next month, when things settle down.
But what if that quiet hesitation is costing us far more than a missed dinner? What if hospitality isn’t a personality type or a spiritual gift for the naturally warm — but a direct overflow of what Christ has done for us? And what if, when we neglect it, we lose something we cannot quite recover by any other means?
Few charges against Christianity are made more confidently than this one: “Look at the Crusades. Look at the denominational splits, the culture wars, the centuries of religious persecution. If Christianity is true, why has it generated so much conflict? And division?” The charge, on careful examination, mistakes the disease for the cure. Bible doctrine isn’t…
We know where our bodies came from. We inherited our fathers’ noses, perhaps, or our mothers’ eyes, and a full set of chromosomes from both. Biology explains all of that. But here’s a question that stops most people in their tracks: where did we come from? Not our bodies—us. The part of us that thinks,…
Every Sunday, in churches across the world, a simple scene unfolds. Bread is broken. A cup is poured. Words are spoken that have echoed through 20 centuries: “This is my body, given for you.” But what actually happens at that Table? Does the congregation meet the living Christ—or simply remember a dead one? Is this…
Open your New Testament to Matthew Chapter 1, and you’ll find a genealogy—a carefully structured family tree tracing Jesus’s ancestry from Abraham down through King David, and on to Joseph. Then turn to Luke Chapter 3, and you find another genealogy. Same Jesus. But a different list of names. A different ancestor for Joseph. And…
Ever stared at the ceiling in church during worship, wondering if you’re the only one thinking, “What if I’m not truly saved?” You aren’t alone. For many Christians, the question of salvation feels less like a solid rock and more like a sliding scale. One day, we’re overwhelmed by the joy of the Gospel; the next,…
