Articles by BibleThinker

A study of a humbling and healing worship passage in Romans. This song is beautiful in how it is the overflow of theology into worship. As we study it we learn how to humbly trust in God’s goodness, knowledge and wisdom. We take note of how important worship is in the Church as well as learning some priceless lessons about not thinking we know more than we do and letting God’s glory be our ultimate purpose.

What specific Old Testament prophecies about Israel are yet to be fulfilled? What expectations does the New Testament have for the future of national Israel? This study focuses on the biblical data at hand and avoids getting distracted by claiming that one side is anti-Semitic. Bible believing Christians are primarily concerned with what the text says rather than emotional arguments.

This will require some thinking on your part. We are trying to get a careful, biblical and thoughtful understanding of God’s plan for Israel as revealed in the Bible and in Romans 11 in particular.

We need a biblical and balanced view of Israel. Romans 11 gives us just this. We see the fact that Israel rejected the Messiah. We see why they didn’t believe. We see that this failure is not universal. And we see that there is a glorious hope for their future! When you understand God’s gracious plan for Israel you see into the heart of God’s grace toward yourself as well.

After establishing that prophecy indicated Messiah would be rejected and that the Gentiles would come to believe in Yahweh through Him(in Romans 9 and 10) we come to the issue of Israel and their current relationship with God. The question is, “has God forsaken Israel?” And the answer is a big “no way!”
Not only does this truth give hope for Israel, it gives us courage and hope in God’s patient love for all who come to Him through the grace of Christ. In this study we will also take a look at 1 Kings 19 and hear a word of encouragement about facing discouragement from what Elijah went through.

A verse by verse study through Romans 10:14-21 including a variety of related topics.

A transparent and thorough treatment of the question from a biblical perspective. Various issues are dealt with such as why people get judged in the first place, what all people should know, biblical examples of people who were saved without hearing the gospel, a rebuttal of universalism, how we ought not suppose that all religions offer a path to God, and how the reality of people responding to the gospel means that we need to be serious and vigilant in evangelism.

How to truly worship God even when you have no emotions. When praise is a sacrifice.

Learn the meaning of this passage and how Paul is using the Old Testament teaching to establish New Testament teaching. Amazing stuff!

9 conclusions we can make about the doctrine of hardening.
Starting with Romans 9 we look at the biblical teaching on how, when and why God hardens hearts.

Questions from the Q&A at the end of the video

Does Romans 9:29 mean that God will create some people specifically to dishonor Him in order to carry out His will?
Is this an example of God simply knowing what the actions of Pharaoh would be if he were in that situation?
The process of a person becoming hard seems to begin with that person’s own will before God hardens them.
Does the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit relate to having a permanently hard heart?
Can you pray for someone’s heart to be softened?

The saying “Jesus never mentioned homosexuality” might seem impressive at first, but upon examination, it is very clear what Jesus’ opinion on the topic really is.