I want to say that I love your site, mostly because you take time to explain yourself thoroughly. My question is fairly simple: Do I tithe on my student loans? My wife and I are both students, and the majority of how we live is off of student loans. As we are newly weds, we were setting up our budget, and couldn’t decided this on our own. We are leaning towards not tithing on it, but wanted to know what the biblical principle was behind this, if any. Thanks, and keep up the great work!

I was saved as a young person, age 9, and have believed all these years. But as I am getting in my senior years, I look back at my life and question if I need to be saved all over again. My faith has been hot and warm, but never did I not believe. I know at the age of 9 my sins were forgiven but are the sins I have committed since that time forgiven in the same manner as when I first believed? I have asked God to forgive me for committing sins while I am saved. Also, we belonged to a church in another state. While members there, we pledged to give a certain amount for the construction of another building. Due to some tight money times we could not finish the pledge before we had to move. Since we are now worshiping in another church in another state, does God want us to complete the pledge of the old church?

Blessings to you and your work. Your comments are greatly appreciated and used in our Bible studies.

We have a question re the recent comments on psalm 83. Much as it seems to fit todays situation Hengstenberg points out that the Amelekites mentioned as part of the federation were wiped out in the days of Hezekiah and never heard of again. Is it therefore not more likely that the psalm refers to a ‘confederation which destroyed itself in the days when the Amelekites were still around and that it is us nowadays who want to read more into it than was meant?

Having been a registered nurse for years before retiring, I am quite familiar with Living Wills and have always, for the most part, been for them. I had a Living Will for my mother, and I presently have one for myself. However, with Mr. Obama’s health plan exposed, it seems that the new focus of Living Wills has, or is, changing to become euthanasia, or assisted suicide, or perhaps that has always been the hidden thrust of Living Wills! I have not been able to find Scriptural evidence for or against this specifically. Please speak to this as I do not know whether I should keep my Living Will or destroy it.

I thought that the apostle Paul even after his conversion continued to honor the Sabbath , Passover etc. I have friends who are born again Christians that recently through blood tests discovered that they were Jews. Now they wont eat pork or certain seafoods. Could you clarify this better. If you are a Jewish Christian do you have to live in both worlds?

Some prophecy teachers are claiming that Ezekiel’s battle is part of the Armageddon scenario. Some of their arguments seem to make sense. Is there any compelling reason why they can’t be right?

In recent weeks I have had several people, in an attempt to encourage me, quote the passage found in Jeremiah 29:11-13. As I read the chapters around these verses, it is obvious that God was speaking through Jeremiah to the people of Israel in an attempt to give them some hope through the promise that their exile in Babylon would last only 70 years.

Is it reasonable to take such a promise made to a specific group of people during a specific point in history and apply it generally throughout all of history?

Thank you for your encouragement and for your obedience to present the truth of scripture. My spirit is sensing so much darkness in our world today. I don’t know if it is because I am more sensitive to it or if it is really increasing. I wanted to know more about when the bible tells us that the God will no longer restrain evil in the last days. Will this be a gradual measure of allowing evil or will there be a definite line of demarcation when the Holy Spirit no longer restrains the evil of this world?

Re: Mark 14: 3,8: And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leaper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious: and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

The Disciples were up set and said it should have been sold and the money used for the poor. But Jesus said,

She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

Question: did this woman know and understand Jesus was about to die and be put in the tomb but his disciples did not?

I am reading and studying in John. I’ve read John 7 before, but never noticed the inconsistency regarding the word “yet” in verse 8 . I thought maybe it was the translation I was reading, (it doesn’t have the word at all) but when I read a different one, it says that the earliest manuscripts didn’t have the word “yet”.

6Therefore Jesus told them, “The right time for me has not yet come; for you any time is right. 7The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what it does is evil. 8You go to the Feast. I am not yet[a] going up to this Feast, because for me the right time has not yet come.” 9Having said this, he stayed in Galilee.

In the next verse, he goes in “secret”

10However, after his brothers had left for the Feast, he went also, not publicly, but in secret.

My question is this: It appears that Jesus lied to his brothers. This can’t be true, so what is the real story?