September 27, 2024
No matter how high the steeple rises in the sky or how beautiful the worship inside, the message delivered from the pulpit will tell you whether a church is really a church. A church must teach sound doctrine or it’s not a church.
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September 27, 2024
Why study Philemon? Because we all mess up sometimes. This short letter from the apostle Paul is to his friend Philemon. Behind the letter is a dramatic story set against the backdrop of slavery. It’s an illustration of “what forgiveness looks like” and was hand-carried by the one who needed it. Grace is messy sometimes.
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September 27, 2024
“This is how to lead a church.” Life in the first century dealt with the same issues we do today. Learn how the apostle Paul, through the influence of the Holy Spirit, directed Titus in how to organize the church, how to choose leaders, and how we can lead healthy and holy lives.
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August 28, 2024
The life of the believer is a journey. If you are a Christian, you are a stranger down here, a pilgrim in a foreign land. You feel that, don’t you? Then how are you to navigate these things throughout your life’s journey? You need a road map, a chart, a compass. You need something to point the way. Where do you find those things? Look to the remedy—God’s Word contains it all.
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August 28, 2024
The people would not listen to Ezekiel’s words of warning to return to God, so instead he acted out the apocalyptic parables, and it pierced peoples’ hearts.
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July 31, 2024
The only antidote we have against a world of apostasy is the Word of God. Understanding and applying Scripture is the only resource and recourse that will help us combat the evil of false teachers. Paul tells Timothy to continue in the things he has learned. Timothy has had a godly heritage and grew up on the Word of God. Now he needs to grow in his salvation.
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July 31, 2024
At the end of his life Paul said, “I’ve fought the good fight, I’ve finished the race, I’ve kept the faith” (4:7). It was worth it, he concluded. This, his final letter, will encourage us all to press on.
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July 31, 2024
Paul wrote to Timothy about how to continue on without him—about how to grow a healthy and strong local assembly of believers organized for a common purpose: the glory of God.
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July 04, 2024
When the Bible says “meditate,” God is asking us to “ponder.” Different from just reading or studying, meditating is sitting with God’s truth for a while—giving it careful consideration.
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July 04, 2024
This small book is the saddest book in the Bible. It’s Jeremiah’s funeral dirge, like he’s singing the blues as he walked the destroyed streets of Jerusalem.
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July 04, 2024
Jeremiah tells of a future day when God promises to restore His people who are now being disciplined.
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May 30, 2024
Paul gets very practical and gives us three different ways we demonstrate that we believe in the coming of Christ. It will impact our attitude toward the Word, our walk, and our work.
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May 30, 2024
Did Jesus already come back? Did we miss Him? That’s what the Christians in Thessalonica were concerned about. Someone spread the rumor that Jesus had already gathered the church and they were living in the Great Tribulation. Paul wrote this letter to assure them that “our gathering together with Him” is yet future.
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May 30, 2024
When the new church gathering in Thessalonica around 50 a.d. read the letters Paul wrote them, they had only followed Jesus Christ as Savior for about a month. This first letter comforted them with solid teaching about Jesus’ return.
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April 29, 2024
What brings life’s greatest satisfaction? Ask anyone who has walked with God for a long time, and they’ll likely say a similar thing: To know you are doing what pleases God. But how do you know God’s will? With that as our foundation, let’s peek into the throne room of heaven at a glimpse of God never seen before ....
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March 28, 2024
All the way from Abel to John the Baptist, Scripture uses the figure of the lamb. This verse from Isaiah was what the Ethiopian eunuch was reading when Philip climbed up into his chariot. The Ethiopian asked Philip, “Who is the prophet talking about, himself or another?” Philip said it was Another who was yet to come, and he told him about Jesus who had come as the Lamb led to the slaughter.
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March 28, 2024
The book of Isaiah is a high pinnacle in our journey through the whole Word of God.
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February 29, 2024
In case you wonder who Jesus is, after reading and studying Colossians you should wonder no longer. Here is the clearest and most inspiring explanation of the deity and majesty of Jesus, God’s Son, perhaps in all of Scripture. This passionate letter to the Colossians defends Christianity against the sneaky, insidious philosophy of Gnosticism (that said Jesus was a lesser god born among many gods). We learn here that Jesus is God and fully God in every aspect.
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February 29, 2024
"This book brings Christ down to where we live ... where the rubber meets the road."
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January 31, 2024
There are some who feel Song of Solomon should not be in the Bible. If you’re going through the Word of God for the first time, you may be puzzled when you come to this little book that’s so different from the others. Abused by those who don’t understand it, even misunderstood and misinterpreted by some Christians, few know what to do with it. Most everyone will just ignore it.
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