Tough Questions Answered

Body, Soul, And Spirit

Published: October 28, 2020 (Originally published: February 18, 2012)
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.

The Origin Of Evil

Published: August 17, 2016 (Originally published: May 28, 2014)

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.”


Paul Was Pre-Trib

Published: July 19, 2016 (Originally published: July 20, 2016)
It's the only logical explanation for his 2nd letter to the Thessalonians

Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Part 2

Published: May 31, 2016 (Originally published: June 1, 2016)
Job's problem explained.

Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Part 1

Published: May 24, 2016 (Originally published: May 25, 2016)
Biblical answers for this age old question.

A Question We’ve All Asked

Published: October 19, 2015 (Originally published: October 19, 2015)
The following question was emailed to our "Ask a Bible Teacher" column this week. Since it's such an important question, I'm responding in our feature article format so as to provide greater detail. This will also allow more people to see it, because it's a question we've all asked.

Why Do Jews Reject Jesus As The Messiah? Part 2

Published: September 16, 2014 (Originally published: September 13, 2014)

Commentary by Jack Kelley

I was recently asked to respond to seven reasons why Jews reject Jesus as the Messiah. These seven reasons have been featured on a Jewish “anti-missionary” website as part of their effort to discourage Jewish conversions to Christianity. In part one I responded to the first four of these reasons,


Why Do Jews Reject Jesus As The Messiah? Part 1

Published: September 13, 2014 (Originally published: September 6, 2014)

Commentary by Jack Kelley

In the last decade or so, a number of Jewish “anti-missionary” ministries have cropped up to combat the increasing conversion of Jewish people to belief in Jesus as the Messiah of Israel. They have come on the scene because in the words of one of these ministries,


What Did God Do On The Eighth Day?

Published: May 20, 2014 (Originally published: May 17, 2014)

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.


Repenting On Behalf Of A Country?

Published: November 11, 2012 (Originally published: November 10, 2012)

Commentary by Jack Kelley

Now the glory of the God of Israel went up from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. Then the Lord called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at his side and said to him,