If you and I disagree on a matter I’m not going to tell you how I feel, what the Holy Spirit “said” to me, what God “laid on my heart,” or how I believe God is “leading me to” this, that or another conclusion.  We have a responsibility to prove our positions.  How?  By the Scriptures.  That’s why they’re there.… Read More “Have You Never Read in the Scriptures?”

Friends, who do you listen to?  Don’t let it be Jon Mitchell, your pastor or your favorite religious author.  Instead, be like the Bereans who “were more noble” than others because “they received the Word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so” (Acts 17:11).  Take what you read in my blog or in any inspirational book or article, take what you hear in any sermon or Bible class, and compare it to the totality of Scripture.  If God’s Word says it, let that be enough.  Let us trust and obey.… Read More Why the Word of the Cross is Folly to Some

We don’t know when we will die (James 4:13-17).  That’s why the Bible says, “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin” (James 4:17).  Are you ready for eternity?  Are you in Christ?  Prepare yourself.  Study the Bible to find out how to be saved and become a Christian (Mark 16:16; 1 Peter 3:21; Acts 2:38; Galatians 3:26-27; John 3:16; Luke 13:3; Matthew 28:19-20).  I would be happy to study with you about this at any time.… Read More “It Is Appointed for Man to Die Once, and After That Comes Judgment”

We are not under the covenant God made with Israel in the Old Testament.  That was taken out of the way when Jesus died on the cross (Colossians 2:14).  We are under a new covenant (Hebrews 8:6-13), Christ’s covenant.  But just as physical circumcision was required as a sign of the old covenant, God still requires “circumcision” of a sort as a sign in the new covenant.  This is not a literal, fleshly, physical circumcision.  No, Paul says it is a spiritual circumcision, “made without hands.”  He then clarifies that this spiritual circumcision takes place when one is baptized – literally “immersed” in the Greek – in water (cf. Acts 8:35-39).… Read More The Circumcision Made Without Hands