If you attend a Pentecostal / charismatic church, you may have witnessed or experienced a church service where the Holy Spirit “comes down” and “takes over,” and there is only praise and worship, no preaching. In such special services, there is an extended praise and worship together with an altar call. People get excited, run…
I recently looked at a YouTube video by a group called ReformedWiki that said we should not sing songs by Hillsong and Bethel in our churches. Their main reason is that they don’t consider Hillsong and Bethel to be genuine churches, primarily because of their doctrines. Now, I agree that there is something terribly wrong…
The Bible teaches that Solomon was blessed with immense wisdom and riches. But he married 700 wives who led him astray, and he followed after other gods. The Bible never says he repented or came back to God. So did Solomon die in his sins? Did he ever come back to God? Or is he…
God said “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” But during difficult times, we question God’s promise and we wonder, “If God rejected King Saul, can God forsake me as well?” This is a very valid concern and I will answer that question in this article. Why did God reject King Saul? And more…
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In this article we will examine the claims made by cessationists that the 1 Corinthians 12 spiritual gifts have ceased, and compare these claims with scripture. Main Points Miracles were not only for the apostles or the apostolic age. Prophesy will cease at the end of the age. “Greater things” cannot be limited to…
How much power does the devil really have? What can and can’t he do? And how do we respond to his attacks? This article answers those questions. Main Points The real issue is what the devil can and cannot do. God has a hedge around His people – even if they are not always…
Although gay marriage has been legal in Canada, parts of Europe and many US states for quite a while, the June 26, 2015 decision by the US Supreme Court to legalize it in the entire United States is perhaps the most profound breakthrough for the LGBT (Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community. This has emboldened…
Some people believe that since the tithes were part of the Law which is no longer applicable to Christians, so too the tithes are no longer a requirement for us today. It is also a fact that many preachers, in a relentless greed for filthy lucre, have manipulated crowds into giving huge sums of money…
Let us start off by saying that it really does not matter on which day of the week Jesus was crucified, and for that matter on which day he rose from the dead. What really matters is THAT he died a literal death, and rose bodily from the dead. The reason I write this article…