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

Big Spring, Texas / / July 23, 2025 / Wordsmith World Key Takeaways Reading the New Testament requires recognizing the ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Longtime pastor, author and teacher John F. MacArthur died July 14 after a short battle with pneumonia. MacArthur, 86, pastored Grace Community Church in the ...

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 ...