Jul 01 2022Harvester July 2022: Rulers of the Gentiles Are Not the Model for Local Churches Open the PDFRead More
Jun 20 2022Conception, Culture, and Christ’s Church Sometimes people who have only known their culture think it is the moral norm. Thus, any major change to that culture is taken as the end of civilization as they know it. Enter Roe v. Wade. What effect has it had on culture? What effect would its overturning have on culture? Regardless of the “cultural norm,” if God has determined something to be inherently sinful, no culture can make it morally acceptable!Read More
May 01 2022Which Divorce Does God Hate? Over the last year, this writer has had several discussions with different brethren who were defending the position that God accepts remarriages that Jesus plainly calls adulterous (Mt. 19:9), as long as those marriages were entered before the couple became Christians. After all, they will say, God forgives sin when people are baptized into Christ. In these discussions, the people so arguing would say something like, “I can’t divorce her [the unscriptural wife] because God hates divorce, and I don’t want to do anything God hates.” Yes, the Bible indeed teaches that “He [God] hates divorce” (Mal. 2:16), but which divorce is it that He actually hates? God Hates Divorce From Scriptural Wives Malachi 2:16 is a passage that is twisted by those defending the position above. Malachi 2:10-16 deals with the corrupted family life of God’s remnant who returned to Palestine from captivity (cf. Ezr. 1:1-4; 7:1-10; Neh. 1:1–2:8). In this section of Malachi, the prophet identified two main reasons why their family life was corrupted. First, their family life had been corrupted by their religiously mixed-marriages (Mal. 2:10-12). Intermarriage with those of the surrounding nations was expressly forbidden under Israel’s law (Ex. 34:16; Deut. 7:3). Solomon’s violation of this law several hundred years prior to this time greatly contributed to Israel’s apostasy (1 Kgs. 11:1-13; Neh. 13:23-27). Since idolatry led to the Exile (cf. Hos. 7:8-10; 13:2), it should have been unthinkable for God’s remnant to tolerate this kind of apostasy again. Malachi reminded them that their commonRead More
Apr 02 2022Free Slaves Liberating Captive Souls Prior to becoming Christians, we were enslaved to sin. Now, we are free! From this setting of freedom, we must seek to liberate others captivated by sin!Read More
Jan 01 2022Harvester Jan 2022: Should the Covid-19 Vaccination Be a Test of Fellowship? Open the PDFRead More
Oct 01 2021Harvester Oct 2021: Thy Kingdom Come Popular View Leads To False Conclusions Open the PDFRead More
Oct 01 2021Harvester Oct 2021: Thy Kingdom Come Popular View Leads To False Conclusions Open the PDFRead More
Feb 01 2021Harvester Jan 2021: God-Breathed Scripture (A Preview of our Lectureship Book) Open the PDFRead More
Nov 01 2020Harvester November 2020: Jeremiah, Civil Government, and Preaching God’s Word Open the PDFRead More
Jun 01 2020Harvester June 2020: “Abba, Father” The Perfect Balance Between Intimacy and Reverence Open the PDFRead More
Jun 01 2020Harvester June 2020: “Abba, Father” The Perfect Balance Between Intimacy and Reverence Open the PDFRead More
Mar 01 2020Harvester March 2020: Enduring the Virus “As Seeing Him Who Is Invisible” Open the PDFRead More
Dec 01 2019Harvester December 2019: What The Holy Spirit Does That The Word Of God Does Not Open the PDFRead More
Jul 01 2019Harvester July 2019: Are We Happily (Scripturally and Spiritually) Married? Open the PDFRead More
Dec 01 2018Harvester December 2018: Have Some Local Churches Called In “Hospice”? Open the PDFRead More