Studies › Page 37 Studies The Pillar And Ground Of The Truth“…the house of God…is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth” (I Timothy 3:15).
The word “pillar” should remind every Bible student of the pillar that God gave Israel to guide them through the wilderness to the promised land (Nehemiah 9:12). After … 
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A True CatholicIn the Catholic Encyclopedia, the entry for the term “Catholic” begins, “The word Catholic (katholikos from katholou—throughout the whole, i.e., universal) occurs in the Greek classics….” We agree that the term catholic simply means “universal.” In the early church, the terminology catholic Church was used by …
A Famous Young ManHas it ever occurred to you how Timothy became so famous a young man?
H. L. Hastings tells of a group of British archeologists who, years ago, came upon a huge marble slab, evidently very ancient, high atop a mountain where no one would be apt to find it …
Studies The Significance Of The ResurrectionIn his great Epistle to the Romans, St. Paul introduces himself immediately as “a bondslave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle,” to proclaim God’s good news about Christ.
Paul’s “gospel of the grace of God” was essentially about the Lord Jesus Christ. He was always talking about …
Studies You Can’t Judge a Woman by Her Cover“But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head…” (I Cor. 11:5).
If you haven’t seen this in person, you’ve seen it in books or magazines or on television. Based on our text, women of certain religious persuasions wear a distinctive head covering whenever …
Can The Ten Commandments Save?St. Paul pointed out a basic Scriptural — and logical — fact, when he said:
“For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified” (Rom. 2:13).
Many people suppose that God gave us the Ten Commandments to help …
Repentance And Salvation“What do sorrow and repentance have to do with salvation, and why would anyone repent of being saved?”
“For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of…” (II Cor. 7:10).
There are different kinds of salvation in Scripture. Paul spoke about the salvation of our souls …
Studies Why Does God Wait?St. Peter was not wrong when he declared at Pentecost that the last days had begun (Acts 2:16,17). They had indeed begun, but God had a secret plan to give the world a period of grace before putting down its rebellion and sending Christ to reign.
This secret purpose …
Light For The SoulA Christian believer talking to an atheistic evolutionist one time, took his watch out of his pocket, noted the time and put it back in again, saying to his friend: “This is a wonderful watch; never misses a second. I never have to do anything to it, yet it …
Studies Don’t Pay Attention To Stories“Neither give heed to fables…” (1 Tim. 1:4)
As the present-day English reader comes upon the word “fables” in the Authorized Version, he is apt to think of Aesop’s Fables, but these were illustrations, while the original word muthois means simply stories, including stories of imagined incidents or …
Studies God’s Unconditional Love“But God commendeth [directed] His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8).
We often hear couples speak of their love for one another after years of marriage, but there is a greater and deeper love—the love of God. The above …
Studies Will We Also Go Away?In 2010, after attending a Bible conference in West Virginia, our family went to visit New York City. Pastor Dennis Kiszonas graciously offered to be our guide for a tour of the city. Since we were staying in New Jersey with a dear friend, I asked Pastor Kiszonas if …
A New BodyThe older we get, the more our bodies wear out and are filled with aches and pains. It reminds us of our heavenly home, and helps prepare us for the time when we step into eternity.
When John the Apostle explained the physical eternal state, he wrote, “Beloved, now …
Studies Living To The Glory Of God“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God” (I Cor. 10:31).
This is the great guiding principle of the Christian life.
The Apostle Paul points out in the preceding context that what may be perfectly right for one person to …
Studies A Pauline Doxology!A doxology is an expression of praise to God that is sometimes sung as a short hymn. Perhaps the most famous doxology is the Latin hymn Gloria in excelsis Deo, which is Latin for “Glory to God in the highest” (Luke 2:14). When I was a boy, I …
Studies You Can’t Get By With ThisOne of Pastor CR Stam’s favorite jokes went something like this:
Teacher: “Johnny, what’s the difference between a pronoun and a preposition?”
Johnny: “Yeah, that’s what I say, what’s the difference!”
Despite Johnny’s indifference, we know there is a great deal of difference between pronouns and prepositions! These …
Studies Living A Dedicated Christian LifeWhy do missionaries leave their families and native country to labor in distant lands? Why do Christian workers (teachers, secretaries, etc.) labor in ministries instead of working in higher paying positions in the world? Why do most believers cheerfully give from their income to the local church when they …
Studies Spiritual AristocracyPastor CR Stam used to call the Bereans “the spiritual aristocracy of their day” because they “received the Word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so” (Acts 17:10,11). Knowing that he was a wordsmith who chose his words carefully, I looked …
Studies Paul’s Two Roman Imprisonments…“For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous
Studies Are We Living In The Last Days?ABSOLUTELY!!
Here is the evidence, laid out by the apostle to the Gentiles:
…“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
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