A Gauge of Your Faith Mark 6:1-6 ; Luke 7:1-10 In these two passages we find the only two places in the King James Bible where Jesus is said to Marvel at something. In Mark he marvels at their lack of faith and in Luke he marvels at the great...

A Lesson on Temptation Proverbs 7:1-27 In this chapter we see a young man who is void of understanding is tempted by a woman who is portraying herself as a harlot. There is a good lesson for us in this chapter in regards to the subject of temptation even if...

Church is the right place to be if you are here for the right reasons.  People should come to church for one of three reasons.  And if you are here for one of these three reasons, then church is the right place for you.  Church is: The right place to...

This morning we preached on the fear of God.  Tonight we must consider how the fear of man limits the fear of God in your life and how it bringeth a snare.  A snare is anything by which you are entangled and brought into trouble. When you fear man, before...

We have studied the fear of the Lord numerous times, and yet there is always more to learn.  Today, we are going to see the the fear of the Lord is the “beginning.”  From there we gain understanding if we follow what wisdom tells us to do. Ps 111:10 The...

Our text is 1 Pet 4:1-11.  Peter said “Live the rest of your time in the flesh… to the will of God [1 Pet 4:2].  To do this you must: Cease from sin – 1 Pet 4:1-4 – 1 “arm yourselves with the same mind.”  In Rom 6:11 this is...

Things to Forsake Ps. 37:8 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In the Bible there are some things that we are specifically told to forsake.  And there are some things that we should not forsake.  Some things to forsake.  Forsake: Wrath and anger – Ps 37:8 we are to forsake wrath and cease...

1 Tim 2:5 says, “There is one God, and one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.”  The only person or thing that should be between you and God, then, is Jesus Christ.  Nothing else should be between you.  However, oftentimes we let other things get between us....

In Ps 106:32-33 we read that “They angered him.”  This is a reference to Num 20:1-13 where Israel chided with Moses because they had no water to drink.   They provoked his spirit – Ps 106:33.  To provoke is defined to arouse or to incite to anger. Up till now,...

When God made the earth and everything in it, there weren’t any thorns.  But after sin entered the world through Adam’s disobedience, then there were thorns.  And from then till now we have had to deal with thorns.  Nobody that walks through or works in the fields wants thorns.  They...