Prov 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” This passage is not a promise, but it is a principle. If you want your child to do something when he is old, you must train...
In the first four chapters of the Gospel of Luke, we see repeated references to the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of John the Baptist and his family and Jesus Christ and his family. When you read these chapters you understand that the Holy Spirit orchestrated everything. ...
There are seven key elements of Christian character found in Eph 5:15-21. These are not all the qualities of Christian character. But these are certainly seven of the most essential. If you are missing any of these in your life, you are going to struggle in some areas of your...
In Mk 11:27-28, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders questioned by what authority Jesus went into the temple and cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, Mk 11:15. Jesus answered them with a question about John the Baptist’s baptism, “was it from heaven, or...
Eph 4:15-16 says, “But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part,...
In Ps 62:2 and Ps 62:6, notice the little two word phrase, “He only.” Those two words sound perfectly exclusive. No one else can compare to the Lord in these things that David said “only” the Lord is. He only is my rock – Ps 62:2 – He is...
This Sunday school lesson is from Eph 5:8-14 which deals with Christians as children of light. In Eph 5:8, Paul wrote, “For ye were sometimes darkness.” “Sometimes” here is defined as “at one time,” as in Eph 2:13. Before we were saved we were darkness. Now that we are saved...
Shortly after news of the coronavirus first broke in the United States, Christians started asking, “Do you think this is a sign of the end times?” And so I preached the message that compared the coronavirus with Biblical pestilences because I didn’t believe that this was a Biblical pestilence. ...
When you’re trying to figure out what to do, there are some instructions in Est 8:5 that will help you to decide. The verse is not exhaustive on the subject, but it is a good verse that gives us four things to consider when we’re trying to decide what to...
When we are saved, God gives us eternal life. “The gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord,” Rom 6:23. After we are raptured to be with God in heaven, he will also give us an inheritance. “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we...
