Salvation

Esther’s Story … Part 3 (Chapters 4-8)

Published: March 18, 2024 (Originally published: November 28, 2004)

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

As Esther might have told it today…

The foiled assassination plot against the King can be likened to your salvation experience. Remember, due to Mordecai’s timely warning the two officers who plotted the King’s death were discovered and sentenced to die. Most translations of my story say they were hanged,


Psalm 74

Published: March 18, 2024 (Originally published: July 26, 2011)

Why have you rejected us forever, O God? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture? Remember the people you purchased of old, the tribe of your inheritance, whom you redeemed— Mount Zion, where you dwelt.


Esther’s Story … Part 2 (Chapters 2-3)

Published: March 13, 2024 (Originally published: November 21, 2004)

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

As Esther might have told it today…

As I mentioned last time Mordecai is my cousin, although he’s so much older than I am that he actually remembers life in Jerusalem before the Babylonians destroyed it. When my parents died he took me in and raised me as his own.


If You Are Faithful to Confess

Published: March 4, 2024 (Originally published: January 15, 2014)
"If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." (1 John 1:8)

Two Roads, Two Gates, One Goal

Published: February 14, 2024 (Originally published: July 18, 2009)

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” (Matt.


The True Identity of Jesus of Nazareth

Published: February 5, 2024 (Originally published: January 29, 2005)
Of all the so-called holy books, only the Bible authenticates itself. It does so through a method we call predictive prophecy and it works like this.

Why Do You Do What is Unlawful on the Sabbath?

Published: January 17, 2024 (Originally published: October 23, 2013)

The Pharisees and teachers of the Law often asked the above question of the Lord. Why did He persist in doing things guaranteed to arouse the ire of His detractors? It seems like almost every time He healed someone, it was on the Sabbath.


The Law is Only a Shadow… Old and New Part 2

Published: January 15, 2024 (Originally published: April 6, 2016)
What's external and physical in the Old becomes internal and spiritual in the New.

A Christmas Message

Published: December 20, 2023 (Originally published: December 24, 2014)

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

Let’s take just a moment to look beyond the controversy over when the Lord came and focus on why He came.  I think Isaiah gave us the best explanation the Bible offers. What follows is my adaptation of Isaiah 53.


If You Believe It, You Have It

Published: December 4, 2023 (Originally published: May 7, 2014)

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16).