The Spirit at work in our lives

We have established that the Holy Spirit is at work in our lives through the power of God’s Word to transform our thinking and behaviour.

We have learned that we can’t separate God from His Spirit. It is simply Him at work, breathing out of Him, developing a...

At the conclusion of the Olivet Prophecy, our Lord spoke about the state of our world at the time of the end in Luke 21:25-36. Before this, he spoke of the collapse of the Jewish State in AD70, and then in verse 24 predicted that “Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of...

If you or an interested friend need evidence, external to the Bible, that our bodies were “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psa 139:14), this book will erase all doubts of God as our Creator. As mentioned in the introduction of the book, the evidence within the human body“present[s] a compelli...

The fifth seal (cont.)

Rest for a little season

As mentioned in the previous article (10), Psalm 94 talks about the blessed state of the person who meditates on God’s law and learns from the discipline they experience in life. These will view death as a “rest from days of trouble” (v13 E...

In 2012 a series of excavations was undertaken in Jerusalem, in the region known as the Ophel near the southeast corner of the Temple Mount1. The excavations were led by the late Dr Eilat Mazar.

During that dig a number of large, broken pithoi (storage vessel) pieces were discovered embedded in a...

An extensive stone quarry has been discovered in Jerusalem’s Har Hotzvim1 neighbourhood by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). It is the largest quarry uncovered from the Second Temple period (the return from Babylonian exile to AD70) in the region. Extensive building projects were undertaken ...

None of us are going to be around here very long, so we should not get too attached to things. The Bible uses many metaphors to describe the brevity of our lives. We read that our life is like a mist, a breath, a wisp of smoke, a flower of the field, a morning cloud, as the early dew, and as smoke o...

Romans 3

v1. Having said that then, you may ask me, “Well, do we have any advantage at all in being Jews? Are we to cancel out all the privileges that the Old Testament says that we have?”

v2. No, I believe you do have advantages. But those advantages are a great responsibility because the...

Sojourning in Moab

In the previous article, we saw how the opening phrase, “Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled,” powerfully sets the scene for the book of Ruth. The horrific events that happened in Bethlehem in the book of Judges stand as a striking contrast to examples of ...

It is true to say that the books of Chronicles contain many names; however, those names, inserted by Ezra through the Spirit, are merely a sample of the millions of names that existed in the nation of Israel throughout time. The genealogies in 1 Chronicles 1–9 were not intended to be a successive ...