If you aren’t called to the mission field, you can still do much to help missionaries who are called. I often remark that I disdain comments from missionaries like “stay by the stuff,” 1 Sam 30:24, and “hold the rope,” Acts 9:25. We’re not sitting around in our churches with...
To “be content” is a command in the Bible. Therefore: Be content with your salary – Lk 3:14 – the laborers who agreed for a penny a day, and labored all day to get it, were upset when those who labored the last hour of the day were given the...
Giving to missions is based on God’s promise in 2 Cor 9:6, “But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.” You sow sparingly and you will reap sparingly. That’s a truth. Likewise, you sow bountifully and you...
We conclude the study of Paul’s epistle to Titus with his admonition in Titus 3:8-15 that we maintain good works. In Titus 3:8 Paul wrote, “This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to...
In Lk 16:1-12 we read about the unjust steward. He had wasted his master’s goods. So, his master told him to give an account of his stewardship because he was going to be put out of his stewardship. He was in a quandary. He couldn’t or wouldn’t do manual labor...
In Rom 13:11, Paul wrote, “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.” Jesus’s return is closer now than ever before. Knowing the time, now is not the time to be so...
In Phil 2:5 Paul said, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.” In Phil 2:5-8, we see what “this mind” is. A Christ-like mind is: A humble mind – Phil 2:7-8 – “made himself of no reputation… he humbled himself.” This is not a reference...
This lesson is from Titus 3:1-7. Titus 3:5 says, “he saved us.” This passage covers what we were before we were saved, what happened when we were saved, and what we should do now that we are saved. What we were before we were saved Titus 3:3 says, For...
Christian Confession 1 Jn. 1:9 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO So, what’s up with 1 John 1:9? It concerns Christian confession. Christians should confess their sins. This question relates to whether or not a Christian should confess his sins, in order to be forgiven. In truth, the question has a twofold...
Before the second coming of Jesus, according to Lk 21:26, men’s hearts will be “failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.” Every where they look, something bad will be happening. Jerusalem will be compassed with armies v.20, there shall be great...
