Logical responses to some of the issues scoffers raise.
Posted October 3rd, 2009 in Selah, Tough Questions Answered
A Bible Study by Jack Kelley
I received a great question this week. A regular visitor wanted to know, is evil a “thing” or the “absence of good”? The writer went on to say, “I understand how evil entered creation via the fall, but it seems to me that something (evil) that had never existed before suddenly came to be.”
Posted September 5th, 2009 in Ikvot ha'Mashiach, Selah, Tough Questions Answered
A Bible Study by Jack Kelley
There are two popular phrases people use in connection with the End Times to discourage speculation about just when the Rapture might take place. One is “like a thief in the night”, and the other is “no one knows the day or the hour”.
It’s been suggested from time to time that I’m sometimes “overly specific” in my teaching on the subject of End Times prophecy (even though I’ve never proposed either a day or an hour) so I’ve undertaken a study of these two phrases to see if I’m guilty as charged.
Posted December 6th, 2008 in Selah, Tough Questions Answered
Commentary by Jack Kelley
Last week’s question on whether homosexual believers will be taken in the Rapture or not has really sparked some interesting, even emotional comment.
As we begin this study, let’s clarify a few points. Living a homosexual lifestyle is living in sin. Both Old and New Testaments make that clear. But all believers are sinners, and we’re all living in sin of some kind. Read Post »
Posted October 18th, 2008 in Selah, Tough Questions Answered
A bible Study by Jack Kelley
(This is an update of an article I first published in 1999. I’ve received several eMails lately questioning the views I expressed in my study entitled “O You Of Little Faith.” In each of them a misinterpretation of Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” was used to support the theory that God sometimes refuses to heal us when we ask. Sadly, this misinterpretation is all too common among Christians today. I’ve updated and expanded the article and offer it in response to these questions. Be blessed.) Read Post »
Posted September 2nd, 2008 in Bread From Heaven, Tough Questions Answered
O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance; they have defiled your holy temple, they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble. They have given the dead bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth. They have poured out blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead. We are objects of reproach to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us. Read Post »
Posted June 27th, 2008 in Tough Questions Answered
Perspective by Jack Kelley
“And they will go out and look upon the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.” (Isaiah 66:24) Read Post »
Posted May 24th, 2008 in Tough Questions Answered
A Bible Study by Jack Kelley
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. (Genesis 2:2-3)
Posted March 29th, 2008 in Tough Questions Answered
What’s the difference between knowing what’s right and doing what’s right?
Posted October 27th, 2007 in Tough Questions Answered
For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight.
Posted October 6th, 2007 in Tough Questions Answered
A Bible Study by Jack Kelley
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! (Galatians 1:8)
Within the past few days I received what is essentially the same question from four different people, each unknown to the other as far as I can tell. I had received variations on this question a couple of times in the past, but to read four eMails that were so similar in nature almost one after the other aroused my interest. I decided that maybe the Lord was trying to give me the theme for my feature study this week. Read Post »
