A knitted Bible depicting 36 stories from the Old and New Testament has gone on display at a church in Kent. The tableaux of ...

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MacArthur, who preached in a suit, was known for his expository preaching, walking verse by verse through the Bible without detours into personal stories, remaining laser-focused on the text. “His ...

MacArthur’s reach and influence on American evangelicalism were truly tentacular. His platform also had an international ...

The Rev. John MacArthur, longtime pastor of the Grace Community Church in the Los Angeles area, has died at the age of 86.

MacArthur, the son of Baptist radio preacher Jack MacArthur, and from a five-generation preacher family, became a pioneer in ...

John the Baptist was one of Jesus’ contemporaries in the 1 st century. The bible says John was beheaded on the orders of the local ruler Herod Antipas.

It is well established that John was highly thought of by his contemporaries. The Jewish writer Flavius Josephus says of John, “John, that was called the Baptist: for Herod slew him, who was a ...

John the Baptist rejects this sense of entitlement, “Do not say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God can raise up children to Abraham from these stones” (Mt ...