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The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy

Published: December 6, 2024
For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on His shoulders... --Isaiah 9:6

What Really Happened at Christmas?

Published: December 4, 2024

A Bible Study by Jack  Kelley

In the past I’ve explained why I believe Jesus probably was born sometime in September. If that’s the case then what really happened in December?  Is Christmas just the result of overlaying Christian beliefs on a formerly pagan holiday as some believe,


Grounded In Reason … The Four Factors Of Faith

Published: December 2, 2024
If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you.
Luke 17:6

Where, O Death is Your Victory?

Published: November 27, 2024
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. -1 Cor 15:56,57

Want To vs. Have To: Discovering the Joy of Giving

Published: November 25, 2024
We don't give because He needs our money, but because we need His blessing.

From This Day On I Will Bless You

Published: November 20, 2024

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

Seek His Kingdom

On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Haggai: “This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Ask the priests what the law says: If a person carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment,


The God Without … A Thanksgiving Message

Published: November 18, 2024
Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth. Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs. Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations. (Psalm 100)

God’s Blessing Game

Published: November 13, 2024
When the Pilgrims had experienced their first successful harvest in the New World, they decided to give thanks for the Lord's provision, even though half of them had died in the year since their arrival. Inviting the neighboring natives to join them, they held a three-day celebration patterned after their knowledge of the Feast of Tabernacles.

The Origin and Destiny of the Gentile Church

Published: November 11, 2024
I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in... for God's gifts and his call are irrevocable. (Romans 11:25,29)

The Woman Caught in Adultery

Published: November 6, 2024
It's Your kindness that leads us to repentance O Lord (Romans 2:4)

The Best Verses In The Bible

Published: November 4, 2024

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. (Romans 8:28)

Here we have God in His most active mode, deliberately weaving every event of our lives together into a tapestry of beneficial effect.


Body, Soul, And Spirit

Published: October 30, 2024
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.

You’ll be Safe Here … A Commentary on Hebrews 6

Published: October 28, 2024
We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. (Hebrews 6:19)

Becoming Who We Are

Published: October 21, 2024

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

If you like, you can think of this as a follow up to our study titled OK, I’m Saved. Now What?  Having shown that once we became a believer all the sins of our life were forgiven at the cross,


OK, I’m Saved. Now What?

Published: October 16, 2024

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: The old has gone, the new has come! (2 Cor. 5:17). Only let us live up to what we have already attained (Phil 3:16).


A Kingdom Or A Family Of Kings?

Published: October 14, 2024

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”

“Yes, he does,” he replied.

When Peter came into the house,


A New Race of Human … Commentary on Ephesians, Pt. 6

Published: October 9, 2024
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 4

A New Race of Human … Commentary on Ephesians, Pt. 5

Published: October 7, 2024
Be made new in the attitude of your mind.
Ephe 4:12

Why Ezekiel 38 Will Precede Daniel 9

Published: October 2, 2024

Commentary by Jack Kelley

“Seventy ‘sevens’ are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy.

“Know and understand this: From the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until the Anointed One,


A New Race of Human … Commentary on Ephesians, Pt. 4

Published: September 30, 2024
Be made new in the attitude of your mind.
Ephe 4:12

A New Race of Human … Commentary on Ephesians, Pt. 3

Published: September 11, 2024
When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to men.
Ephe 4:8

A New Race of Human … Commentary on Ephesians, Pt. 2

Published: September 9, 2024
His purpose was to make in Himself one new man (the Church) out of the two (Jew and Gentile), thus making peace and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross by which He put to death their hostility.
(Ephe 2:15-16)

A New Race of Human…Commentary on Ephesians, Pt. 1

Published: September 4, 2024
His purpose was to make in Himself one new man (the Church) out of the two (Jew and Gentile), thus making peace and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross by which He put to death their hostility.
(Ephe 2:15-16)

The Prodigal Son… Luke 15:11-35

Published: August 28, 2024

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

Even in the midst of our very worst rebellion, we can’t stop being our Father’s children.

Prodigal means “given to extravagant expenditure.” The word never appears in the parable of Luke 15, or anywhere else in the Bible for that matter.


Proving the Existence of God

Published: August 26, 2024
The continued survival of the Jewish people in spite of numerous and concerted efforts to exterminate them unequivocally demonstrates God's existence, His presence in the world and His involvement in the affairs of man.