Simeon and Anna In Lk 2:25-39 we read about two people who saw Jesus in the temple when Jospeh and Mary came to “present him to the Lord”, Lk 2:22. These two people are Simeon and Anna. Simeon His character, Lk 2:25: Just – he was morally upright, a man...
The Power of God Rom. 1: 16 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO The Power of God When we deal with folks about the Lord, we shouldn’t worry about whether or not we’re doing a good enough job. I realize how nervous we can be trying to talk to someone about Jesus. However,...
Light and Darkness 1 Pet 2: 9 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO According to 1 Pet 2:9, when God saved us, he called us out of darkness. And he called us into his marvelous light. To fully appreciate this contrast and what the Lord has done for us, we must study darkness...
Spiritual Prepping These days you hear more and more about people being encouraged to stock up on food and other necessities in advance of the anticipated “crash”. It is not uncommon, in a presidential election year, for people to “fear the worst” if the incumbent is not reelected. I’ve heard...
The Church Building Matt 16:16-18 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Jesus said, “I will build my church,” [Matt 16:18]. It’s built on a rock [Matt 16:16]. That rock is Jesus Christ, and the gates of hell were not able to prevail against it between his burial and resurrection [Acts 2:27, 31]. Notice...
Waters in a Garment Prov. 30: 4 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In Prov 30:4, Agur asked, “Who hath bound the waters in a garment?” This is a profound question coming from a man who professed to be brutish and lacking in wisdom and knowledge. As we study the Bible you’re going...
The Thieves of Wealth Lk 12: 33 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When the Lord was preaching to his disciples he said, “provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief aproacheth, neither moth corrupteth,” [Lk 12:33]. Today we want to see in...
Diversity in the Body 1 Cor 12 is a great encouragement to me, because I often trouble myself about not doing the work of the ministry the way or to the same degree as others I admire in the Lord’s work. Particularly, I get concerned about leading more souls to...
Heart of Unbelief Heb 3:12 says, Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you and evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. It says an evil heart… Jeremiah said, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it”?, Jer 17:9. ...
Jesus’s Birth Remarkable Circumstances in Jesus’s Birth Caesar’s Tax Joseph and Mary were from Nazareth, Lk 2:4, 1:26. Ordinarily, they would have stayed in Nazareth for Jesus’s birth because Mary was already so far along in her pregnancy, Lk 2:5. Yet, Jesus was not supposed to be born in Nazareth. ...
