These are frustrating times! Our lives have been turned inside out and upside down, in some respects. People on television and the internet seem bent on stirring us up to fear inside and angry hatred on the outside. Perhaps you have noticed a change in your attitude. Are you less joyful? Less optimistic? Less pleasant to be around? Are you more irritable? More easily frustrated? More susceptible to lose your temper…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 109)
Some Bible students find interest in realizing that Jesus’ feet were anointed with oil and wiped with a woman’s hair on two different occasions. Sometimes these two events get confused as one event, because of the similarities between them, but they are definitely two distinct times in the life of Jesus. Let’s consider them. The first anointing took place in Luke 7:36-50. …
When you are provided with an “excused absence,” how do you respond? If someone is given an excused absence from school or work, they might rejoice and wish for more. But, if you were given an “excused absence” from assembling with the church to worship God, how would you respond? Would you respond in the same way as receiving an excused absence from school or…
We are living in a time when so many things are being cancelled—sporting events, church events, political events, school events, etc. Is it possible that we have allowed the cancelling of so much around us to cause us to cancel our daily actions as a Christian? Is there any reason that our conduct as a child of God should have taken a break during…
The word “compromise” is a word that often means different things to different people. It is used often in marriage counseling, in an effort to help a husband and a wife to learn to get along and to find some kind of common ground in their relationship and even in their arguments. “Just compromise.” However, while some may see the word as…
Some people wonder today how long God is going to allow the earth to still stand. Some people wonder why God hasn’t destroyed America yet. Some people wonder how long the patience of God can hold out while sin is running rampant all over the globe. In Genesis 6, “the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and…
The very folks who should have been expecting the coming of Christ and welcomed Him with open arms into their lives and into their homes actually rejected Him. However, it is interesting to see the response that some Gentiles had to our Savior. In Luke 7, a Gentile centurion “heard about Jesus” and pleaded “with Him to come and heal his servant” (7:3). When…
For some reason, we sometimes try to justify certain behaviors and think we will “be ok” and that God will “be ok” with us. Unfortunately, that is what “the flesh” does and how “the devil” works—he deceives us into thinking according to “the flesh” and living according to “the flesh.” God issues warning after warning against giving into and flirting with our…