I am going out on a limb with this post. It is not my nature to tackle controversial issues. This comes in response to the recent news of a young man who was killed in his attempt to share the gospel on an isolated island in the Indian Ocean. I do not know all the...
This article may not seem to relate to the topic of Contentment, which we have been spotlighting this year, but as we look at what the world offers, we see how people are influenced to believe things that not true, and miss out on the things that are true. We see this...
Whose voice leads you? Infants begin life under the influence of parents, and then grow up hearing family and friends. Intermingled with familiar voices, the world speaks volumes of ideas that are embedded in our minds, hearts and souls. Except we are trained in our...
As in life, so, in Bible study and the preaching of God’s Word we sometimes stray off the main path, forgetting where and how we started, and losing sight of our purpose and goal. So, before I post my notes on Romans 14, I want to again look back to our starting...
It has been said that one picture is worth a thousand words. While we sometimes need images to help us see a hidden truth there is no image that will portray the word “faith.” Many people look at the cross, but walk away unmoved and unchanged from their thinking. The...
As Jesus was crucified the Jewish leaders looked up and ridiculed Him. He looked down and said, “Father, forgive them; they don’t know what they are doing.” By His death He was proving how desperate was man’s condition, with no means of escaping His Father’s wrath,...
We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:10 And are there scoffers, who madly walk after their own lusts, and question the coming of the Lord? The hour hastens when infidelity shall doubt no more: “The Lord himself shall descend from...
"Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat; but narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matthew 7:13,14. This sounds too harsh in the ears of the old man, who would not have the law made use...
"The everlasting gospel." Revelation 14:6. The gospel is properly called “glad tidings,” for these reasons: We are polluted with the filth of sin; in it is opened a fountain for sin and uncleanness. The way to heaven is blocked up by our sins; it reveals “a new and...