Equipping Saints • Engaging Culture • Examining Claims
The Covered Contract: Answering a Christian’s Refusal to Pray for the “Unspoken” Few small phrases spoken in the gathered life of a local church carry more freight than the single word “unspoken.” It surfaces in midweek prayer meetings, in Sunday school circles, in Facebook posts and small-group text threads, and it tends to land with…
Lesson 4 The Incredible Cost of Preservation of the Bible Introduction and Purpose of the Study Our study is a six-week informational series intended to strengthen the class’s confidence in the Bible as God’s Word before transitioning to a longer “real-life discipleship” study. The aim is not deep theology but historical literacy: helping believers articulate…
Image: Portrait of Ellen G. White at age 51 A Traditional Christian Examination of Doctrine, History, and the Prophetic Legacy of Ellen G. White Introduction: A Church That Resists Easy Categorization On any given Saturday morning, more than twenty-four million people in over two hundred countries quietly close their workplaces, gather their families, and walk…
A Traditional Christian Examination of Latter-day Saint Proxy Baptism ✦ ⬩ ✦ Introduction: A Woman in the River On a September day in 1840, a widow named Jane Neyman waded into the muddy current of the Mississippi River near the half-built city of Nauvoo, Illinois. She was not being baptized for herself. She had come…
Lesson 3 How We Got the Bible — The Formation of the New Testament Canon Lesson 3 of our six-week study is designed to deepen confidence in how the Bible came together — and can we trust that the right books made it in? This Sunday school lesson tackles one of the most important and…
Image: Google Gemini’s Nano Banana imagines the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles meeting with Jesus for some prophetic updates. A Comprehensive Biblical and Theological Analysis Borrowed Names, Vanished Signs ❖ ❖ ❖ Introduction: A Claim That Bears All the Weight The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stakes everything on a single, breathtaking assertion:…
First: An Observation. A casual observer who reads Joseph Smith’s “search for truth” as noted at BYU Studies, is met with an obvious question: “Joseph Smith (1805–1844) inhabited a visionary world and belonged to a visionary family. At about age twelve, he began to worry about his soul and started searching the Bible. As he…
Delivered by Pastor Joey | East Valley International Church | Gilbert, Arizona Text: Luke 12:49-59 (ESV) Abstract and summary of the pastor’s sermon: The Divine Divinity and the Coming Fire — Luke 12:49–59 This sermon, preached through the Gospel of Luke, dismantles the culture’s soft, romanticized portrait of Jesus and replaces it with the Christ…
Lesson 2 The Journey of How the Bible Was Made and Preserved Lesson 2 of our six-week study is designed to deepen confidence in the Bible by tracing the remarkable path it traveled to reach modern hands. This Bible study traces how the Old Testament was formed through prophetic authority, translated into Greek as the…
An essay in Christian apologetics: A Traditional Christian Response to a Mormon Missionary Tract ❖ ❖ ❖ Introduction: A List That Has Outlived Its Origin Few Latter-day Saint apologetic instruments have enjoyed the quiet longevity of the so-called ‘17 Points of the True Church.’ For more than half a century, the list has circulated on…