Do  we have spiritual gifts today? Have you ever turned on your TV to find men and women who claim the power to heal the sick, raise the dead, exorcise demons, handle poisonous snakes and drink poison without harm?  Well, perhaps not all of these, but we do hear of men who claim they can heal the sick. Why is it that those who claim to heal always get to pick which gift they can exercise? I always say, let's get the poison and make sure the miracle healers take a drink first. That way we will know they have the ...

In a list of objections raised by Dr. Edward Hinsons The New Last Days’ Scoffers Articles, he charges that Preteriism Is False, and asks “Are We Eliminating the Real Need for Eschatology? This is a vaild question. It causes us to focus on what eschatology is and where to place it? Dispensationalists and all futurists place eschatology at the end of the Christian age. Preterism vigorously challenges that assumption. Preterism view the Christian age as an age without end, therefore, it can have no eschatology. This, futurists believe is the great heresy of Preterism. Eschatology Eschatology is the study of last or final things, from “echatos” meaning last, and logos, ...

Did Jesus See A World Without Marriage? Jesus spoke with religious rulers of his day about the end of a tradition in marriage. Did Jesus see a world without marriage? Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about whether the rights of marriage should be extended to the gay community. After giving some thought about living in a world without traditional marriages, the following thoughts occurred to me. If there were no marriages, eventually, population numbers would significantly decrease. This would temporarily lower the unemployment rate. However, with smaller populations, the world’s productivity will also cease, so we won’t be as efficient and productive. Next, ...