“And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.” (Matthew 2:11-12) We’ve all heard the story, so much so that a few of us could probably quote the verses. So why talk about the […]

“The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.” (Matthew 13:41-43) Everyone may looked saved in your church, but the Bible says it ain’t so. That’s what the Parable of the Wheat and […]

“And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 25:30) I read that verse the other day and thought about a commercial I recently saw on television. Three men are seated in a waiting room, each with a bushel basket, flooded with ears of corn, waiting to see the cornflake inspector. All were very proud of their harvest, at least until the first man went in to see the inspector and within seconds comes flying through the door […]

“He said to them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’ Simon Peter answered and said, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’.” (Matthew 16:15-16) The fact that Jesus existed has never really been doubted by scholars. However, outside of the Bible, there is very little scholarly evidence that Jesus ever lived. At least until recently when Biblical Archaeology Review announced that a newly discovered burial artifact appears to provide the oldest archaeological evidence of Jesus Christ. The artifact, known as an ossuary, a […]