Everything he ever learned and believed was changed in an instant.  Ananias had grown up as a faithful, devout Jew.  He entered Jerusalem on this life-changing day for the feast of Pentecost, which the Jews called Shavuot.  They sometimes called it the “Feast of Weeks” since they observed it seven ...

In addition to the qualifications for church overseers like elders and deacons discussed in my previous article, 1 Timothy 5: 3-16 gives instructions concerning widows. “Honor widows who are truly widows…She who is truly a widow, left all alone…If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her care ...

Grandma Ruth’s passing was going on two years now.  Michael remembered all the times, good and bad, that he’d had with his grandma.  When he had reached his teenage years, he didn’t think he needed to go to church anymore.  “You’re forcing religion down my throat,” he remembered saying to ...