I made reference to “common grace” in a previous article (The “Restrainer” of the End-Time) concerning the presence of the Holy Spirit in the world, particularly during the Tribulation period under the Antichrist.  It occurred to me that we often throw terms about under the false assumption that all who hear or read us know what we mean.  I plead ( Read more... )

I am not so presumptuous as to assume I have a totally accurate understanding of the biblical predictions of the final days of mankind on earth. I am well-convinced of certain aspects of those events, especially the major one of the second coming of Christ. His return is pivotal to all else about it.

One aspect that puzzled me was what ( Read more... )

The Sirens are mythological creatures from Greek lore that had female heads and bodies of a bird. They supposedly lived on three small rocky islands surrounded by underwater reefs, the hidden danger of snags and rocks. They were sisters who sang and played instruments so beautifully that passing mariners were irresistibly drawn towards them until ( Read more... )

I watched and listened to the events as we approached the mid-term elections. One of the things I noticed was a prevailing and infectious sinister bitterness from many of those who defy God’s laws in their speeches, behaviors, lifestyles, and expressed goals. The only objective I heard plain and clear was “we will take back our country from those ( Read more... )

Perhaps I have missed something along the way, but it seems to me that there has developed a tendency among true Christians to back away from some of the basic biblical declarations that are essential to salvation.  Among those of us who are Wesleyan and have in the past held faithfully to what we call the truth of entire sanctification has been a ( Read more... )

The Bible is the only Book the Christian has that makes the claim to be inspired of God.  Those who have been Christians for awhile probably do not need to have “inspiration” explained to them.  Basically, “inspiration” means that God directed the writing of the Scriptures and they are inerrant in their original form.  Any errant aspects in ( Read more... )

The non-Christian views the Church-Christians-out of their own earthly perspectives of what they think or want things to be.  They do not understand that the believers’ points of view on earthly matters do not come from within themselves.  Christians are committed to God’s divine authority which they know is infallible.  That authority is the basis ( Read more... )

The world we live in has always been unfriendly to Jesus.  It has never embraced our Lord as their own because they are entrapped in their sin by the prince of darkness and cannot naturally perceive their need for Him.

It is true that the gospel has exerted a tremendous influence in the forming of decent societies.  That has been the natural ( Read more... )

A What-Millennialist?

John E. Henderson, Ed.D.
July 27 - September 30, 2006

I have no hopes or intentions of resolving the debate about “pre-“, “a-“, and “post-“ millennialism. I am convinced there will be some who will bristle and never get past something I say that challenges their basic assumptions about this. I am sorry if that should be the ( Read more... )

I know this is telling my age, but I was considering that the oldest recorded man to live on the earth was Methuselah. He lived to be 969 years old. If I lived that long on earth, I would not die until 2905. The truth, of course, is that if this old earth is still around in 2905, I will have been long gone ( Read more... )