by James H Boyd | Apr 5, 2026 | Christian Living
A pastor I know once stood before his congregation and playfully instructed them to “Turn to the Book of Jethro, ” although no such book appears in the Bible. When the people realized they had been pranked, one lady replied “You mean thing!”...
by James H Boyd | Apr 5, 2026 | Jesus and the Gospel, Judaism and Biblical Contect
SUCH then was ‘the hope of the promise made of God unto the fathers,’ for which the twelve tribes, ‘instantly serving (God) night and day,’ longed…To the question, whether this hope has ever been realised – or rather, whether One has appeared Whose claims...
by James H Boyd | Apr 1, 2026 | Church & Culture, Ethics and Difficult Issues
An Open Letter to My LGBT Friends Dear Friends, Before you read another word, I want you to know that I am writing this because I believe honest conversations are better than caricatures and assumptions. Too often, Christians and LGBT people speak about one another...
by James H Boyd | Feb 23, 2026 | Christian Living
Funerals are breeding grounds for bad theology. When my sister, Sandy Adcox, died of leukemia in 2004, I remember thinking, “If one more person tells us that ‘God needed her more than we did,’ I’m going to punch them!” Of course, I didn’t, but...
by James H Boyd | Feb 8, 2026 | Apologetics & Worldviews
Church and State are often treated like rival siblings fighting over the TV remote, but Scripture presents them as distinct, yet complementary, institutions under God’s ultimate authority. As “cultural Christianity” fades, something else inevitably moves into the...
