The book of Amos in the Bible is a book of warning from God to Israel through the prophet Amos. In the time of Amos, Israel was not the entire Jewish nation, but was the northern kingdom, with Judah as the southern kingdom after the split following Solomon’s reign. Israel had largely turned away from…
In Mt. 4.21 (Mk. 1.19) we read, “And going on from there he saw another two brothers, Jacob the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets.” In Gal. 6.1 we read, “And brothers, if a man should be caught in some trespass, you, the spiritual…
Among conservative, Bible-believing Christians we hear much talk about how to get to Heaven. This is as it should be as far as it goes, for being saved by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the only way to avoid hell and get to Heaven, what we call a sine qua non, “without which…