Category Archives: Adult Bible Classes

At this point, the way we lose our salvation should be obvious. If we enter by faith, we leave by giving up our faith. As we covered in the last post, faith has three elements. We even made up a … Continue reading →

So we are saved by grace, and so long as we’re saved at all, we’re entirely saved. (Heb 10:14 NIV) For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. So how might I fall … Continue reading →

So in Part 1, we covered some of the reasons love is the greatest of all God’s gifts. We could go on, but we need to consider why faith and hope get added to the list. Why these two other … Continue reading →

Chapter 13 famously concludes with — (1Co 13:13 ESV) 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. What few notice is that this famous triad appears elsewhere in the New Testament … Continue reading →

Tongues in Acts I take the gift of tongues in Acts 2 to have been the miraculous ability to hear in one’s own tongue — and I don’t know whether the apostles spoke in multiple languages or that’s how God allowed them … Continue reading →

One of great difficulties of interpreting chapters 11 – 14, is we really just aren’t that certain about what “prophecy” and “tongues” were. And the first step to a deeper understanding is admitting our lack of certainty. It’s been traditionally … Continue reading →