Before the Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven and sat down at God the Father’s right hand to rule His followers in the midst of His and their enemies through the church, He commanded them visibly and physically to go and make disciples of all nations. “Make disciples” is the meaning of “teach," in Matthew 28:19, the Greek word, matheteuo . A major aspect of making disciples of Jesus Christ is the truth. Being a disciple of Jesus Christ is both synonymous with and parallel with being a...

I went to Youtube and I did a basic search by typing, “Christian Zionism.” Many different podcasts and talks appeared with those exact words in the title, and all of the presentations were negative. One person with tens of thousands of views said it was a “cult.” Others said they would present a list of reasons it was wrong or unbiblical. So what’s true or what’s happening? Is Christian Zionism true? Certainly it matters how one defines that terminology. A lot, and I mean very, very...

People, especially church people, hear and have heard the word, “ministry.” It translates the Greek word, diakonia , a noun that is found thirty-four times in the New Testament. There are many related words, including the verb form, diakoneo , which means, “to serve.” In a general way, the term translated “ministry” means “service,” which is sometimes also how the King James Version (KJV) translates the word. “Ministry” is also related to “minister,” diakonos , which the KJV...