Before we can understand what God has said, sometimes we need to understand how God has said. Different genres of Biblical literature require different understandings. How should we read the book of Revelation? What is Apocalyptic Literature? What is symbolic and what is literal? How can we determine the difference? And what does it all mean?

Christians are not to hide deceitful hearts behind pious sounding religious words, but as children of the God of truth, we should be known for honesty and integrity.

An exposition of chapter 15 of the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, concerning the doctrine of repentance. Repentance is a gospel grace, given by God for our renewal and restoration, enabling us to continue to grow into the image and likeness of Christ our Savior.

Marriage is designed by God as a picture of Christ and the church. Divorce is a tool to be used in pursuit of repentance and reconciliation. Unrepentant adultery is the only grounds for divorce, and remarriage is always adulterous.

Adultery is covenant unfaithfulness of the body, but also of the mind, and the affections. It's an unfaithfulness that pervades the whole person and leads to destruction. Therefore we must be willing to take radical measures to put to death the old man, and walk in purity of heart.

Murder is a sin of the heart that is only rarely carried out in full, though often begun in word or facial expression. The Law calls us to recognize our guilt before God, and apply ourselves to seeking peace with our brother.

In the 12th Century, the Roman Pope reached for the heavens, but created only an earthly kingdom marked by corruption, vice, and violence. But the construction of grand cathedrals gave rise to universities that would produce great scholars and eventually lead to the Reformation.