A Centurion’s Great Faith Luke 7: 1-10 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Our text is Lk 7:1-10. In Capernaum was a centurion who loved Israel [v.5]. His servant was dying [v.2] and so the centurion asked Jesus to heal him and he did. About this centurion Jesus said, “I have not found...
Add to “Temperance Patience” 2 Peter 1:6 Patience is a choice. This is another choice that Peter tells us to add. Add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience. Patience is the suffering of afflictions, pain, toil, calamity, provocation, or...
Add to Virtue Knowledge 2 Pet. 1:5 In the last lesson we studied about adding virtue to your faith. Virtue is a power to produce something manifested by voluntary obedience to truth. God wants us to get saved and then summit to be obedient to the truth. In this...
Add To Your Faith Virtue 2 Peter 5-7 Verse 5 starts out with “And beside this…”, Peter, in verses 1-4, has been describing the salvation that we have in Jesus Christ. So getting saved isn’t all there is to the Christian life. Some people get saved and never grow...
Spiritual Gifts Rom. 12:6-8 and 1 Cor.12:7-11 A Spiritual gift is just that, it is a gift. You can’t earn it any more than you can earn your salvation [Eph.2:8-9]. When you are born again you become a new creature [2 Cor.5:17]. You are baptized into the body of...
Obedience to Abraham Gen. 12 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Today we are going to examine the obedience of Abraham in three different episodes in his life. You’re going to see the hard choices he faced when commanded to obey God and you are also going to see the growth of his...
“Yet he hath not root in himself,” Matt.13:18-23 The Lord speaks of one that “hath no root in himself” in this passage. In this lesson we will look at a few things about roots and what type you should have. Most of the time they, are not seen, they...
Converging Kingdoms Matt. 3:1 Mark 1:14 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO This study of converging kingdoms is about the coming of the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God and why there is a distinction between the righteousness which is of the law [or what is commonly referred to as “Old...
Preparations for Jesus Return Titus 2 13 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO What should we be doing in anticipation of or in preparation for Jesus Return? To prepare for Jesus return we should be: Looking for Him – Tit 2:13 – these days everyone is looking for the Tribulation and the antichrist and...
Child Like Faith Is. 28: 9-13 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Religions are complicated and confusing by design so there will always be a place for the authority of the leaders. This is typical of the Pharisees, Priests, and Elders. It is clergy over laity. True Christianity is simple. The most profound...