Our text for this lesson is Eph 55:22-33.  The subject is marriage.   The pattern for marriage is the relationship between Jesus Christ and the church.  In Eph 5:30, we are members of Christ’s body, of his flesh and his bones.  This is the result of being baptized by the...

The Law of Prayer James 4:2 “…Ye have not, because ye ask not.” The last seven words of James 4:2 provide a perfect place to discover the Law of Prayer. The God and creator of ALL, subjects Himself to the prayers of men! Separate prayer from man and prayer has...

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.  ...