By John Fast

1 Timothy 4:2 – “…seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron”

In this passage the Apostle Paul is describing the character of false teachers in Ephesus whom Timothy must confront and command to stop spreading their “strange doctrines” (1 Tm 1:3, 4). It is their seared conscience that permits them to be not only hypocrites who simply pretend to be Read more »

By John Fast

            All true Christians have had the experience of bumping up against some Scriptural truth that runs totally contrary to our accustomed way of thinking and which threatens some long held and cherished assumption, presupposition, or denominational dogma. In my years as a Christian I have had to jettison much erroneous theology picked up from the denomination in which I was raised Read more »

By John Fast

For years many people have recognized the deplorable condition of the church in America – its shallowness, superficiality, worldliness, and spiritual impotency – and many solutions have been advanced and tried with virtually no impact on stemming the moral and spiritual decay of society. We have prayed around flag poles, had forty-days of this and forty-days of that Read more »

By John Fast

The Epistle to the Hebrews is unique among the books of the New Testament. It is the only epistle whose authorship is unknown. Not only is its authorship uncertain, but so is the place of its writing, its date, and its originally intended readership. It contains some of the most polished Greek in the New Testament with a significant amount of its vocabulary used only here in the entire Bible. But despite all of Hebrews’ uncertainties some things about the letter are very clear

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