Unprofitable Things
If the church is not called to fight sin, why do the Apostles advise us to avoid certain things? Paul writes to the Corinthians – ‘All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable’ – 1Cor 6:12. First of all, what an unabashedly bold statement! All things are lawful for the church! Yes, we stand justified by Christ, and hence God does not count sins we commit in our flesh. So all things are indeed lawful for us! But are all things profitable for the race marked out for us?
Anointment of the Holy Spirit
‘For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink’ – 1Corinthians 12:13. What is the meaning of this? Why is the Holy Spirit given to us during our baptism? What did Jesus mention about the purpose of this anointment of the Holy Spirit of God? Is there a difference between baptism with the Holy Spirit and baptism with fire?
Baptism
Since the 2nd century, water baptism (Greek: immersion) has been used as a ritual to cleanse past sins and establish a relationship with God. Is that the intention of the original baptisms given by Christ’s Apostles? What was the difference between the baptism given by John the Baptist and the one given in the name of Christ? Why does it imply a ‘born again’ notion? Is this symbolic action even necessary? Can infants be baptized in Christ? What happens when a person takes baptism?
Proving the Faith
If the church’s calling is not to struggle against sin and justification is rather only by faith in Jesus Christ, does it mean we do nothing to prove our faith? How can a person prove his or her faith in Christ? It’s often been said that we should follow Christ. But how exactly can that be accomplished? What did Jesus command his followers to do?
Faith in Jesus Christ
The period of the Law Covenant showed us mankind needs to change its mindset from self-justification efforts and understand the need for a Savior i.e. Christ. But how can Christ justify us when we still remain in our fallen flesh? When Christ taught us to pray for forgiveness, did he mention how often do we need that? If the Law showed us Christ’s necessity, what happened to it after his arrival? Is it still in vogue?
Repentance – A Change of Mind
Disregarding centuries of misuse of the English word, when we go to the original Greek, we see that repentance (Greek: metanoia) means ‘a change of mind’. So what is it that we need to change our minds about? Why does the Bible say mankind is in an unjustified state? In Old Testament times, God gave Israel a set of rules called the Law Covenant. What was the deal there? How is that related to sin? And why did God provide the Law covenant (the Old Testament) if he knew there would be a New Testament?
The Church
Jesus Christ was the first to use the word ‘Church’ in the New Testament. Today, many think of churches as buildings. What is the Church actually, according to the Bible? The biblical root word for ‘church’ is the Greek ekklesia. What does that mean? How does the Bible describe the original churches? How does one become part of Jesus Christ’s Church? Are there any specific things that need to be done?
The Calling of the Chosen
The New Testament warns that distortion can arise from within the community itself, and history shows how easily faith can be reshaped into a tool of human power, offering surface-level comfort while quietly training fear, rivalry, and distrust. Across the centuries, these patterns have appeared in different forms: in long institutional eras, in reform movements that corrected some abuses while repeating other control patterns, and in modern spiritual “technologies” that can still divide people while sounding deeply reassuring. That is why many churches today carry a mixture of teachings, some faithful, some distorted, that can pull people away from the relational heart of original Christianity. So what is a true biblical believer to do in such a time, not to become another faction, but to rebuild trust, heal relationships, and practice a love that is strong enough to make community possible again?
Prosperity Theology
In many places, prosperity preaching sounds like a survival promise: “God wants you to succeed, to be well, to have enough.” People are invited to repeat selected Bible promises aloud, to answer with “Amen,” and to speak as if blessing is already guaranteed. Often the message includes an appeal to give—sometimes framed as a tithe or a “seed”—with expectation that God will return it in measurable ways. For those carrying sickness, debt, or social shame, that language can feel like comfort with handles, even if the comfort is temporary. But is this how Scripture is meant to be used? And what did Jesus actually teach about wealth, security, and the kind of life God’s Kingdom is bringing?
Morality Police
Many young people feel that church has become less like a place of healing and more like a moral checkpoint, where belonging is guarded by reputation and rule-keeping. But is that the shape of Jesus’ own ministry? Did he train his followers to rank people as “clean” and “unclean,” or did he cross those lines, sharing tables with the socially suspect and describing his mission as a doctor for the sick? In the Gospels, the tension is clear: will we imitate boundary-policing religion, or will we follow the restoring welcome of Christ?
Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism is a modern movement that rose in the early 20th century and has become one of the most influential forms of Christian worship worldwide. It is often marked by deep expectancy of God’s nearness and a strong emphasis on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, especially speaking in tongues. Many people today associate “tongues” with unintelligible speech because that is what they often encounter in contemporary worship settings. But in the New Testament’s first “tongues” moment at Pentecost, the emphasis falls on intelligible witness: people from many places hearing the message in their own languages. This raises careful questions worth exploring: what did the early church understand spiritual gifts to be for, why were signs and healings so closely tied to the gospel’s public witness, and how did Paul guide believers to value what lasts most – faith, hope, and love?
Daughters of Babylon
The Reformation is often remembered as a brave return to Scripture. But it also unfolded in a world where faith and government were tightly bound together. So what should we make of the churches that emerged during that era? What did they renew, and where did political pressures pull faith communities back into old patterns of power and rivalry? And when Revelation warns about religion becoming entangled with rulers, does it offer a lens for reading that period of history with both honesty and hope?
The Man of Lawlessness
2 Thessalonians warns that a “man of lawlessness” will arise as the day of the Lord approaches, exalting himself within God’s “temple.” Many today read that warning as a single future end-time ruler, while others locate its main horizon in the first-century Roman world. This article follows a historicist line of reading that treats the image as a recurring pattern: when political power and religious authority fuse, faith can be remade into court religion, and communities can be pressured to give ultimate loyalty where it belongs to Christ alone. Do these prophecies invite us less to guess a name, and more to test where our allegiance is being trained?
The Great Apostasy
The New Testament gives serious warnings about drift after the Apostles. Paul cautions that “savage wolves” can arise even “from among your own selves,” drawing disciples after themselves. This article explores one way Christians have described that long drift: a “Great Apostasy” (2 Thessalonians 2:3) in which the Jesus movement, once a minority faith, learned to speak in the categories of public institutions and philosophical schools as it moved into the orbit of Roman power. The aim is not to question the sincerity of believers, but to trace how those pressures reshaped Christian language over time, and to invite a return to Scripture’s own horizon of resurrection, restored creation, and God’s Kingdom on earth.
The Great White Throne Judgment
What’s the Great White Throne Judgment? Who are those sitting with Jesus on the throne? And who represent the sheep and goats in front of the throne? If the reign is for a thousand years, what is to happen at the end of it? What will be the fate of Satan? Why does the Bible say ‘death and Hades will be thrown into the lake of fire’? What about the Ages to Come? What will be mankind’s position on Earth then? And what will be the role of Jesus and his Elect after the thousand-year reign?
An Age of Restoration
Why does Peter promise that when Jesus returns, it will be the Times of Restitution of All Things? He says those times are described by the Holy Prophets of the Old Testament. What are the promises recorded in the Bible about this Age of Restoration? What do these Kingdom prophecies predict regarding justice, world peace, health and prosperity of mankind? What exactly is the future that God has in store for humanity?
Judgment Day
Those of the second resurrection wake up to a “krisis” i.e. Judgment. It is indeed Judgment Day for them. But what exactly is Judgment Day? Why do Scriptures link it to the Kingdom of God? And how long is it? Is it a 24-hour day? And why does the Bible say the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness when God’s judgments come upon the Earth?
A Change of Age
What are the events the Bible describes as related to the first resurrection? Just as there are two resurrections, so also there are two judgments. And so how is the Bema Seat Judgment different from the White Throne Judgment? What is to happen to Satan at the beginning of the Next Age? Why does the Bible say those who wake up in the second resurrection find themselves in a “krisis”?
Resurrection of the Dead
The Scriptures say that all the dead shall be raised back to life when Jesus returns. Will everyone come to life in an instant? The Bible says there are two resurrections. Why does it say, ‘Blessed are those of the first resurrection’?
Return of Christ
What do Daniel’s prophecies predict about world-controlling empires and governments? What happens after the fall of Rome, the last of the Great Empires? Who is the Son of Man who is to receive the kingdom and dominion from God?
Spiritualism: All in the Mind?
Spiritualists theorize that the Kingdom is just in the spiritual realm. They usually quote Luke 17:21 to claim the Kingdom is “within” people. Did Jesus really tell the Pharisees that his Kingdom was within their hearts? What did he actually tell them? How can his statement be harmonized with the rest of the Bible?
Fundamentalism – Earth to End?
Fundamentalists claim the Earth is to be destroyed. Is that scripturally correct? Why does Jesus say the meek shall inherit the Earth? And why do Scriptures say ‘the Earth abideth forever’? Is there a difference between the end of the age and the end of the world? Why does the Bible predict interesting events that happen on the Earth after the “fire” of God’s jealousy devours the planet?
Modernism – Is it possible?
According to modernism, how can Man establish a righteous and peaceful kingdom on Earth all by himself? Is the Modernists’ claim really possible? Are we on our way to a Kingdom of Peace? And is their theory supported by Scriptures? What does the Bible say in this regard?
Church Beliefs – The History
What did the Early Church believe about the Kingdom? What happened in later centuries? What does the Encyclopedia Britannica record in terms of the kingdom beliefs of the church throughout the two-thousand year history since Jesus Christ? What do present-day Christians believe about the Kingdom? What are the differences between the Modernists, Fundamentalists and Spiritualists? Do any of them hold upto the Scriptural truths?
Kingdom of Heaven
Why does any Christian need to learn about the Kingdom of Heaven? Why does Jesus Christ ask us to pray for a Kingdom to come upon the Earth where God’s will shall be done as it is in Heaven? Isn’t the Kingdom of Heaven supposed to be rather in Heaven? Jesus went about the cities and villages preaching the gospel of the Kingdom. Compared to that, what is the predominant teaching regarding the Kingdom among present-day churches?
The Confession
Jesus did not teach worship as a puzzle. He taught prayer with a clear address: “Our Father…” (Matthew 6:9). And the apostles keep that same clarity: “Yet for us there is but one God, the Father… and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ” (1 Corinthians 8:6). Scripture also says, “God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son…” (John 3:16). So Christians praise “the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father” (Ephesians 1:17) and confess “Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:11).
But why does returning to this simple pattern matter so much?
Creeds under Empire
The earliest believers confessed Jesus as God’s Son inside a world where “lord” and “savior” were imperial titles, and that confession carried real social cost. Under pressure, the church fought distortions on more than one front: some denied that Jesus truly came “in the flesh,” and John’s letters answered by insisting on the concrete, touchable reality of Jesus’ life, suffering, and love. But as Christianity moved from persecution to imperial protection, the conditions of debate changed. Questions once worked out through Scripture and pastoral persuasion increasingly traveled through councils, votes, and, at times, penalties. Let us trace that shift, from contested confession to creeds under empire, and ask what Rome gained when it learned to speak Christian, and what the church risked losing when unity became a public project.
The True Son
Rome called its rulers “sons of god.” In that world, Jesus says, “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9 NIV) and “I and the Father are one” (John 10:30 NIV). He even speaks of a life that reaches back before Abraham (John 8:58 NIV). What do these claims mean, and why does Acts so often describe baptism “in the name of Jesus Christ” (Acts 2:38 NIV) alongside Matthew 28:19?
John 1:1 – The Word & God
John 1:1 opens with words that echo Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1 NIV). In a world where empires trained people to call rulers “son of god” and to treat power as sacred, John redirects our eyes to an earlier beginning, before coins, slogans, and thrones. What does this opening line reveal about Jesus? Let us listen carefully to John’s own language, so our worship vocabulary is formed by Scripture rather than by empire.
The Holy Spirit
The Bible presents the Holy Spirit not as a side-topic for theologians, but as God’s own holy power at work, strengthening ordinary believers to witness to the Kingdom in a world shaped by empires. How does Scripture define “spirit” (breath, life, influence)? Why is God’s Spirit called holy? And what kind of power did Jesus promise: power that rules by taking, or power that heals and gathers? We will follow the text from Samuel’s warning about kings to Jesus’ promise at Pentecost.
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