Do Catholics really remove the Second Commandment about graven images from the Bible? In this Catholic Bible Highlights episode, we open the Scriptures and highlight what’s actually there—line by line. Learn why this common claim is false, how the Ten Commandments are numbered, and how religious images function in biblical worship.
Is 2 Timothy 3:16–17 proof of sola scriptura? Not so fast. Learn how Paul’s words—and the rest of Scripture—point to a Church with both Scripture and apostolic authority.
Why do Protestants and Catholics often read the same Bible verse and come to completely different conclusions? This post explores the “broken fourth wall”—a hidden key to understanding the divide.
When I first became a Christian, my King James Bible had as the title for the book of Acts, “The Acts of the Apostles.” Soon after this, I found myself in the Charismatic and Pentecostal traditions and learned that it should hr-hr-rEEeeally be called “The Acts of the Holy Spirit.” In some early Greek manuscripts […]
Below is a list of 35 things that every Protestant and/or Evangelical Christian I have ever met would agree are true. And, before you read the list of 35 things, please note that the following three things are true about every single one of them: There is not a single verse anywhere in the Bible […]
This seemed like a good way to get content out the door vs. trying to do an entire video production with edits, etc. The genre here is a “Drive Time Monologue,” but I invite the listener to imagine a scenario in which we are driving together. Perhaps my passenger is a Catholic who wants to […]
In my own journey into the Catholic Church, I identified around 14 theological barriers to embracing Catholicism. Near the top of my list of “deal breakers” was the notion of infallibility. As I have shared many times with many people on my journey, I had to let the Catholic Church use her own words with […]
I’m not sure how many of these I’ll do, but this is the first (hopefully not the last) video in what I’m calling (for now) “Talk About Catholicism.” This first one is “Talk About Purgatory.” It’s an un-scripted, from the hip answer to three questions: How did you understand this subject before you were Catholic? […]
DURHAM, NC – For many people, the Bible can be an overwhelming and intimidating book. For pastors who stand and teach from the Bible every Sunday, the task can be daunting. How can one person work through all that material, and how can people finally get to a place where they feel comfortable reading the […]
This morning I recounted to my wife an occasion about twelve years ago when I was preaching from Luke 8:19-21 where the text says, “Then his mother and his brothers came to him, but they could not reach him because of the crowd.” After reading this text to the congregation, I looked up with a […]