If you have ever struggled to wrap your mind around the biblical doctrine of election predestination , you are not alone ...

Now Ephesus up until this time had really not ... It didn't exist yet. For Paul the Bible means the Hebrew Scriptures, or more precisely, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures that ...

Pastor and theologian John Piper tackled one of Christianity s enduring debates how Scripture addresses witchcraft and ...

But now under the Emperor Nero, Paul is more certain of his fate. He has completed his last missionary journey and is close to execution. Timothy is probably still in Ephesus (4:12), but Paul ...

Q: What is the name of the nun to whom Mary appeared revealing that she had lived in Ephesus, Turkey the last years of her ... On October 3, 2004, Pope John Paul II beatified her together with four ...

Spreading the word Over 30 years, Paul clocked up around 10,000 miles, traveling across the Roman Empire. He preached in some of the empire’s most important cities. Although places like Ephesus ...

Several false teachings plagued the church in Ephesus, and Paul addressed the various problems ... many people in contemporary society view the Bible as a source that props up the patriarchal ...

The two priests, former soldiers of the French army, climbed the Bulbul Dag ("nightingale's hill" in Turkish), which rises above the Ephesus plain ... Mary's House was visited by Pope Paul VI in 1967 ...

The practice of magic was common in Ephesus. Paul visited the city on his second missionary journey and stayed there for three years during his third missionary journey. The Epistle to the ...