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A Shepherd’s Story

Published: December 30, 2024 (Originally published: December 25, 2015)
In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night. And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened.

Joseph’s Christmas Story … Part 2 (Conclusion)

Published: December 16, 2024 (Originally published: December 25, 2004)
But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."(Matt. 1:20-21)

Joseph’s Christmas Story … Part 1

Published: December 13, 2024 (Originally published: December 5, 2015)
But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins."(Matt. 1:20-21)

The Feast of Hanukkah … History And Prophecy

Published: December 11, 2024 (Originally published: December 17, 2014)
He will be succeeded by a contemptible person who has not been given the honor of royalty. He will invade the kingdom when its people feel secure, and he will seize it through intrigue. (Daniel 11:21)

Mary’s Christmas Story… Part 2

Published: December 10, 2024 (Originally published: December 21, 2003)
The angel said to me, "Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end." Luke 1:30-33

Grounded In Reason … The Four Factors Of Faith

Published: December 2, 2024 (Originally published: November 1, 2014)
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

A Kingdom Or A Family Of Kings?

Published: October 14, 2024 (Originally published: August 19, 2015)

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. 5

Published: October 7, 2024 (Originally published: August 29, 2004)
Be made new in the attitude of your mind.
Ephe 4:12

Why Ezekiel 38 Will Precede Daniel 9

Published: October 2, 2024 (Originally published: June 3, 2015)

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. 2

Published: September 9, 2024 (Originally published: June 8, 2016)
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)