By Shawn Lazar Early in my Christian life, when I was about eighteen, I had the chance to become a youth pastor. But I said no. Over the next […]

  By Bob Wilkin What Is This Approach? It was the start of the fall semester of my senior year in college. A friend, John Carlson, had invited me to […]

  By Ken Yates What does it mean to “deny the faith” (1 Tim 5:8)? This question brings up a couple of issues. First, is it possible for a Christian […]

  By Bill Lee I have long considered Paul’s letter to the Ephesians the Christian’s guide to the spiritual conflict of the ages. Paul wrote Ephesians while imprisoned in Rome […]

    By Zane C. Hodges Salutation (1:1–2) 1:1. In Paul’s salutation to Timothy, the Apostle presents both the medium of his apostleship and its measure. The phrase by the […]

  By Wayne A. Brindle Unlikely Definitions What if you were debating someone about the merits of home schooling, and your opponent said, “Home schools are bad, because, as the […]

  By Bill Fiess All of us who are living in the 21st century are well aware of the technological revolution we daily experience—phones by which we can talk face-to-face, […]

  By Lewis Sperry Chafer God Has Spoken The epistle to the Hebrews opens with a reference to the messages of God which have been projected into this world, and […]

By Zane C. Hodges Function and Maturity 3:1. The discussion of privilege in the public gatherings of the Church as they relate to men and women leads quite naturally to […]

A chapter from Chosen to Serve: Why Divine Election Is to Service, Not to Eternal Life. By Shawn Lazar Introduction When theologians write or talk about the decrees of God, […]