“So, how many did we have here today?” The question is asked in regard to the number of attendees at the lunchtime Bible study. “We had one, eighty-one,” is the response shouted back. What?! Everyone can obviously see that there were not over 100 people at the Bible study! There are barely 181 chairs even set up in the room, and less…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 136)
There are people all around you (folks you know and folks you don’t know) who are hurting for a variety of reasons. Maybe they’re suffering from physical or medical ailments. Maybe they’re dealing with emotional struggles. Maybe they’re aching over family issues, relationship troubles, loneliness or uncertainties. Most (a very high percentage) of the hurts that people are experiencing are completely unknown…
It is interesting to note various parallels between Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5-7) and his half-brother’s epistle near the end of our New Testaments (the book of James). One such parallel is on the word “ask.” Five times in Matthew 7, Jesus emphasized the need for God’s people to “ask” (7:7-11). A similar emphasis is found in chapters one and…
Baptism is one of those topics that seems like it should be simple, but there are so many different ideas regarding it and so many different practices of it that one can easily get confused trying to figure out what he actually needs to know. Is there a way to simplify this topic? Is there a way to strip away all of…
Two words that should never go together are “nobody ever.” Both words are superlatives, stating absolute extremes. Has just one person ever done this? “No! Nobody!” Maybe it happened just once? “No! Not ever!” Starting a sentence with “Nobody ever” may intend to draw a strong conclusion, but it actually creates doubt and draws the conclusion into question. Some have been known…
Have you listened to or read any news reports lately and had the thought, “They’ve left their senses!”? Have you heard someone on the TV or radio talk about the Bible and had the thought, “They’ve left their senses!”? The Bible says that is exactly what has happened! Paul warned his friend, Timothy, about those who “spread” a false message, “strayed concerning…
The book of Acts begins by telling the reader what Jesus did for the forty days that He was on the earth between His resurrection and His ascension. It simply says that He with His apostles, “to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things…
Has someone ever borrowed your car? Suppose that you had a brand-new car, which you just drove home from the dealer, and it only had 10 miles on it. Now imagine that a friend came over and you let him borrow it. What would you think (and how would you like it?) if your friend returned the car and it had paint…