Posted November 14th, 2009 in Selah, The Bible's Authority
This Week’s Feature Article by Jack Kelley
The Bible isn’t such a complex document that it requires years of formal education before you can begin to comprehend it. I’ve always believed the Bible was meant to be understood by any believer who can read and has a serious interest in knowing what it says. I say this because I believe the Bible is best approached by relying on the power of the Holy Spirit rather than one’s own intellect. James 1:5 says that any of us who lacks wisdom need only ask God who gives generously to all without finding fault.
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Posted July 4th, 2009 in Ask a Bible Teacher
Q. Thank you for answering all my questions. I know I have many but you’re are such a great teacher and I’m very grateful for your answers. To be honest there just isn’t this kind of teaching happening in the church these days.
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Posted June 12th, 2009 in Ask a Bible Teacher
Q. In June 6, 2009’s post, I was reading the verse about faith comes by hearing the Word (Romans 10:17). I have been intensely thinking on this verse for some time now, because something about it has caught my attention. I need to know what the missing element is. I looked it up in several translations but what I am seeing isn’t explaining the missing piece.
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Posted June 6th, 2009 in My Thoughts
Commentary by Jack Kelley
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him” (1Cor. 2:9)
In the time just before the Babylonian captivity, the people of Judah were certain that God would not permit the Babylonians to conquer them. “After all,” they said, “we’re God’s people. His Temple is in our midst. Surely He will spare us.” Their leaders encouraged them to think this way and false prophets assured them that everything would soon be normal again. Even when the Babylonian armies were at the very gates of Jerusalem they were expecting God to miraculously deliver them.
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Posted May 31st, 2009 in Ask a Bible Teacher
Q. Why is so much of the Bible hard to understand? Not impossible but hard! My prayerful conclusion was that it was meant to be that way by GOD. If the Bible read like a long list of rules or a consise way to live your life from A to Z where would be the passion that comes from studying the word? Would people dedicate their entire lives to learning scripture?
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Posted May 12th, 2009 in Ask a Bible Teacher
Q. Thank you so much for your site. It has been an integral part of what God has been doing in my life over the past 3 years or so. May God bless your faithfulness!
I hope you might be able to help me. I’ve been asked to lead a new Bible study group at our church. I’m very excited but also apprehensive. I’ve only just begun to really study the Bible for myself and don’t have a clue how to help others learn to do it. I want to encourage them to take the responsibility and privilege of personally examining scripture seriously without leaving them twisting in the wind. The Bible can be a little overwhelming! Can you recommend some resources or advice I can give them as we start this journey?
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Posted April 21st, 2009 in Ask a Bible Teacher
Q. Thank you for your wonderful site! It is a blessing to have as a resource. I am wondering if you can send me in a good direction…
I was so thrilled that my roommate came to church with me on Easter Sunday. She isn’t walking with the Lord, although she calls herself a Christian. She expressed to me that something is missing in her life and that she feels broken. I am praying the HS would continue to convict her, and that she would continue to come to church and understand the full cost and impact of her salvation, and what it means to be a child of Christ. Read Post »
Posted December 31st, 2006 in Ask a Bible Teacher
In all of scripture I have found but one verse that appears to back up the traditionally Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation (i.e. Presence of Christ dwells literally in the bread and wine). I just wanted to get your take on this verse, which has confounded this ex-Catholic.
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Posted December 31st, 2006 in Ask a Bible Teacher
In your article on Daniel’s 70 weeks, the bit that bothers me a little is the timing of Christ’s entry into Jerusalem. On the second page, you state that the decree by Artaxerxes was made in March 445 BC, then “exactly 483 years after that the Lord Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey …” Putting these two figures together would make the year of our Lord’s death as 38 AD. How does that figure with the usual age of 33 years at His death?
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Posted December 21st, 2006 in Ask a Bible Teacher
(Luke 16: 19.31).. is the “story” about Lazarus and the rich man a parabel or not.. Can we assume from that verses what happens to believers and unbelievers after death or not..? Some people make this passage out to be “just another parabel”. What is your opinion?
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