Topical Studies

What are the 7 Dispensations?

Published: August 6, 2025 (Originally published: March 19, 2014)

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

I’ve been answering questions from so many people for so long that I sometimes forget not everyone who comes to the site has read all of them. As a case in point, I answered a question about the flood where I said it was the second in a series of seven times where mankind would violate the terms of an agreement with God and bring judgment upon themselves.


What About Those Who’ve Never Heard the Gospel?

Published: July 23, 2025 (Originally published: July 2, 2003)
A sound biblical answer to an age old question.

Success Is Not In Never Falling, But In Always Rising Again

Published: July 16, 2025 (Originally published: July 2, 2003)
Some of the Bible's greatest heroes experienced huge failures.

Are We Good or What?

Published: July 14, 2025 (Originally published: June 30, 2003)
How good are we... really?

Receive The Holy Spirit Part 2 … The Gifts

Published: July 2, 2025 (Originally published: April 3, 2010)

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

Last time we discovered Pentecost was not the day the Disciples received the Holy Spirit, but instead, it was a time when He came upon them with an unmistakable display of power (Acts 2:1-4). Remember, they had already performed miracles in the Lord’s name.


Receive The Holy Spirit

Published: June 30, 2025 (Originally published: March 27, 2010)

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley

I’ve gotten a raft of comments on my comparison of John 20:22 with Acts 2:1-4 in my answer to a recent question. Some were more diplomatic than others in suggesting my understanding of these verses leaves something to be desired.


Passover and Palm Sunday

Published: April 9, 2025 (Originally published: March 28, 2015)
Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

The Faith To Walk On Water

Published: February 5, 2025 (Originally published: April 2, 2016)
Impossible goals can be brought into perspective through faith.

The Strangest Miracle

Published: January 8, 2025 (Originally published: May 20, 2015)
The first three Gospels are so much alike that people accuse Matthew and Luke of borrowing heavily from Mark, who supposedly wrote His gospel first. John's gospel is different from all of them.

Names of Jesus: The Gate

Published: December 25, 2024 (Originally published: December 22, 2015)

A Bible Study by Jack Kelley 

Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate;