The President just signed health care reform legislation that will greatly expand the power of the federal government. In this article, I do not intend to praise or condemn this new set of laws and regulations. This is not a political article at all. Instead, I want to use the Bible to address the potential [...]

A new report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has found that approximately 1.57 billion people are now Muslim. This means that nearly 1 in 4 people in the world practice Islam.
To have this kind of growth, obviously the religion is spreading beyond the countries already dominated by Islam. The report noted [...]

The book of Revelation was written to encourage Christians to endure the sufferings and persecutions ahead of them in order to receive their reward from God. Generally, the suffering we face today is much different, often less severe, than what they faced near the close of the first century. But one thing remains the same [...]

Writing from prison, Paul told the brethren in Philippi, “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!” (Philippians 4:5). So important was this instruction that Paul repeated it. He gave a similar command to the church in Thessalonica when he wrote, “Rejoice always” (1 Thessalonians 5:16).
Whenever we see a command like this, we [...]

There is an interesting description of the Lord’s people in the book of Acts. In a few places, the Lord’s church is called, “The Way.”
Saul went to Damascus “so that if he found any belonging to the Way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem” (Acts 9:2).
Later, after Saul (then Paul) [...]

“Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Tim. 3:12).
Being persecuted for living as a Christian is not something that might happen, but is something that will happen. The degree of persecution may vary by time and place. But it is something that each Christian will have to face.
I [...]