Is there a formula on how we should tithe? What happens if you cannot?

Here’s the fuller picture; Biblically, a tithe is the first tenth of one’s increase, set apart for God.  For us in the modern world, that’s 10% before taxes. In the Old Testament, Israel gave tithes to support the Levites, the temple, and the poor.  That’s 30% on top of what the civil government required. In the New […]

I heard someone once said to beware of that which is acceptable to the world.  What are some of the practices God is asking us to separate from?

From the beginning of the Scriptures, God commanded His people to separate themselves from the other people of the world.  They were to look different, act different, hold different opinions and to behave differently.  They were to treat people differently, they were to have a different diet, they were to not intermarry with the others […]

Why do you think Jesus believed He was forsaken; as he is the Messiah?

The scriptures tell us that Jesus bore the sins of the whole world.  He suffered all of the pains and troubles that a human being might suffer.  It was on the cross that that he uttered the words that are referred to in the question.  There are two principal interpretations for these words coming from […]