Equipping Saints • Engaging Culture • Examining Claims
Does it look like Madison Avenue? Testing a Megachurch Stunt Against Scripture Introduction: Two Ways to Enter a Sanctuary There are two ways to make an entrance into a house of worship. One is on a borrowed colt, exactly as the prophet foretold: “lowly, and riding upon an ass” (Zechariah 9:9). The other is behind…
“No Man Stood With Me”: Making Sure Your Pastor Never Has to Say It ❧ ✦ ☙ “No Man Stood With Me” The hall is cold, and the old man in chains stands alone. Rome has summoned the apostle Paul to answer for the gospel before an imperial tribunal, and the places where his friends…
An AI Exposition and Supplemental Bible Study of Luke 18:9-14, as preached by Pastor Joey Sampaga at East Valley International Church, September 20, 2026. The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into…
Why the Prophet’s Statecraft Still Governs the Argument ❦ ❦ ❦ I. Introduction: The Question Nobody Asks Precisely Enough In February and again in May of 2026, the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government of the United States House Judiciary Committee convened hearings under a title that left nothing to inference: “Sharia-Free America: Why…
Why “Arabia” Is Not an Incidental Detail A Silence Loud Enough to Preach There is a hole in the New Testament record roughly the size of a seminary education. Luke, who tracks Paul across two continents and counts the days of his sea voyages, says nothing about it. Paul himself disposes of it in a…
An AI Exposition and Supplemental Bible Study of Luke 18:1–8, as preached by Pastor David Jerome at East Valley International Church, September 13, 2026. The Parable of the Persistent Widow Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work. — Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest . And he…
Photo: Sow a Crayon, Reap a Masterpiece Why wait for a miracle when you can color one? Bring the brightest, most unwavering smiles in television history to life. Fair warning to all artists: You will need to purchase an extra box of “Titanium White” just to get through the dental work on page four. Click…
A Narrative Theological Survey of the Sixty-Six Books He Is the Theme: The Christ-Centered Architecture of Holy Scripture • • • Introduction: The Stranger on the Road Two men walked west from Jerusalem on the first Easter afternoon, and they walked in the wrong direction for the right reason. Their hope had died three days…
When exegesis is not your forté. A sermon circulating in Presbyterian circles argues that Jesus committed an ethnic slur in Matthew 15:26, was corrected by the Canaanite woman, and repented by widening his mission — all on the premise that being wrong is not the same as being sinful. This essay dismantles that argument on…
A Theological and Practical Examination of Koinonia in the Modern Church Introduction: Eleven Minutes Stand in the back of almost any evangelical church in America on a Sunday morning and time the emptying of the sanctuary. In most congregations it takes about eleven minutes. The benediction is pronounced, the instrumentalists play something warm and unhurried,…