The message of salvation is simple. We are saved by grace through faith in Christ. But the effect of salvation is that true believers stay with the Lord. “We are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them who believe to the saving …
Some relationships are good, and some are bad. By bad relationships, I don’t mean the people we share these relationships with are necessarily bad. But they are a liability in our relationship with God. Sometimes, we try holding onto people that we know are taking away …
I remember a story a preacher told in church over 50 years ago. I was not even a teen yet. I had little or no interest in God at the time. But the gist of the story has stayed with me. This preacher told us about …
Some preachers today proudly refer to themselves as prosperity preachers. They promote a message that emphasizes material gain and wealth. In this post, I focus on the danger of unbiblical prosperity teachings. These teachings are perversions of the truth about biblical prosperity. Some preachers today pervert …
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” (Matthew 22:36, NIV). A man asked Jesus that question. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind,” He replied (verse 37, NIV). “This is the first …
“Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” (Matthew 18:1, KJV). The disciples asked Jesus this question. He responded by placing a little child in the midst of them. As He often did, He used their question for a teachable moment. “Except ye be converted, …
Do you ever doubt the fact that God fulfills His promises? Sometimes, we are guilty of treating God as if He were a man. We may not realize that we are doing this even when we are. For instance, we may regard a situation as hopeless …
“Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about” (Gen. 22:2, NIV). That’s what God told Abraham to do at the …
In Psalm 137, the psalmist writes about a time when the Jews were in captivity in Babylon. While there, the Babylonians asked them to, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion” (Psalm 137:3). These were the songs the Jews used to sing in the Promised …
“Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new,” Paul writes (2 Corinthians 5:17, KJV.) The fact that we have become a new creation in Christ does not mean we automatically live …
