We live in a nation of people who are brought up and continually brainwashed to think that material prosperity is the gauge of success and is the ultimate goal in the pursuit of happiness. Americans spend most of their time pursuing the …
"I do not pray," Jesus says in John 17:15, "that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one." There are times that each of us wishes we would not have to deal with the world quite as intimately …
PBS's "Merchants of Cool" on Frontline is a sober probe into the research and marketing of what teens consider "cool." Knowing the way big business and big media push-the-envelope today, the results should not be shocking. The conclusion …

(31) Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.
Some translations, such as the English Standard Version and the New International Version , render this as, “Do we then overthrow [or nullify] the law by this faith?” (Emphasis ours throughout). Paul is writing about a …
Types in Scripture, especially those of Jesus Christ, give us insight into truths that we later see enacted in the antitype. God uses this teaching method throughout the Bible, not just to prophesy of things to come, but also to give His people another way to understand His revelation. In this regard, we will look at an early type of the sacrifice of our Savior and see how closely Abraham’s interrupted sacrifice of his son, Isaac, prefigured the far greater offering of Jesus. We find the story in Genesis 22:1-3: Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to …
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