Bible Students will be aware of the many metaphorical-natured, Old-to-New Testament correlating truths “hidden” in the Bible known as “Types and Shadows”. Often eluding the casual Bible reader, these rich…

How could the Bible get it so wrong, you may ask. Of course, I’m being facetious as it’s not the Bible that gets it wrong, it is the 150+ year,…

Some Notes on Tongues (languages) (In the interest of full disclosure, in early August 1981 I received the Holy Ghost just as described in the Bible’s book of Acts 2:4,…

“God is a Spirit” Jn. 4:24 God is not a conglomerate of 3 people; God is A spirit (and so are you btw, IThess. 5:23). The beginning premise for any…

“But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are…

In my previous post “The Dispensation of Christ” I submitted my discovery that, satisfying the requirements to meet the definition of a “biblical dispensation”, the time frame of Christ’s ministry…

Dispensationalism is that useful framework whereby the panorama of the whole Bible Story is chronologically divided into historical periods called “dispensations”. Each dispensation is differentiated by the unique and prevalent…

In my zeal I built a thousand silos wherewith to hold my grain, but I’ve just one filled silo, and that with toil and pain. A thousand acres I would…

It was the best of food, it was the worst of food… Joe’s Food Stop If you were planning on catching dinner or any meal for that matter at the…

Concisely defined as “unmerited favor” (Right now, right at this moment, the eternal, invisible, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent Spirit of God whose essence is Love, manifesting His grace and truth via…

The story of King David is a success story in the Bible, but so is the story of Job. In Revelation’s prophecy, Philadelphia’s much celebrated church remained unreproved, but so…

Extra-biblical exaggerations Though today some are venturing off the reservation so-to-speak, the optimum acceptable appearance for the Apostolic Pentecostal man in good-standing is the “clean-shaven face” (with the quality of…

A cultural curveball By the 1950’s the Apostolic Pentecostal church in America, having experienced an epochal measure of restoration in early 20th century America, enjoyed a tepid peace with that…

“(14) Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? (15) But if a woman have long hair, it…

Rom 12:3-6 “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think;…

In my personal Pentecostal fellowship experience the term “denominal” (or denominational) was/is used to describe what was considered to be the general body of Christio-religious outsiders and partial-gospel practitioners; they…