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Understand the Bible? Pastor Melissa Scott, Ph.D.

May 31, 2024

Yom Kippur, known in the English as the Day of Atonement was an Old Testament system that provided covering for the people’s sin for the past year.  This system failed because people need more than a covering.  The good news is when we study this set time through the eyes of Christ, we can see that He fulfilled it,...


May 30, 2024

Onesimus put distance between his master, Philemon, and himself. This disobedience created a debt that he had no way of repaying. Through contact with Paul, Onesimus finally went back and became a fellow laborer. The hardest thing to do sometimes is to go back to the place where you failed and start over. Onesimus...


May 29, 2024

When Job was tested by God, he suffered great pain and loss.  God was trying to teach him, but he failed to understand the lesson, so God had to set him straight.  We do not know everything that God knows; there is a purpose for what happens to us.  God is greater than our circumstances and our understanding.  He is...


May 28, 2024

When God led His people into the Promised Land, He told them to drive out the enemies that dwelt there; but they failed to do so.  The enemies turned God's people away from Him, and God did to His people what He had planned to do to their enemies.  Some tribes were greatly diminished even before the Assyrian...


May 27, 2024

Catholic tradition presents Mary as an intercessor, but the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ is our true intercessor.  Christ intercedes for us as we come against the unseen enemy of Satan.  The devil's point of attack is the center of our faith, but we have Jesus as an advocate in our corner praying that our faith fail...