In January 2017, the most expensive home ever listed in America was put on the market in Bel Air, Los Angeles for $250 million. The home had everything that anyone could ever want, including a helicopter, car collection, twenty-one bathrooms and $200,000 worth of candy. But, did you know that your home can be much more valuable than that? The wise Solomon…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 173)
When you are looking for a church, what are some of the crucial doctrines and practices that are vital to find? Is there anything more important than what a church teaches that a person lost in sin must do in order to be saved? It is so critical to find a church that teaches what the Bible teaches about salvation! So here’s…
A little boy crafted a small wooden boat and gently placed it in the neighborhood pond. After a few minutes he asked his dad (with confusion in his voice), “Daddy, why isn’t my sailboat sailing?” The father tenderly replied, “Well, son, it’s because your sailboat doesn’t have a sail.” How many of us are trying to go through life like a sailboat…
When police arrive on the scene of an accident where there is a small pool of blood remaining behind from one of the victims, do you know what the police can tell about the person from that blood? Besides the fact that a person has been injured to cause them to bleed, there is nothing about that blood (by looking at it)…
Suppose for a moment that you took a blank sheet of paper and wrote this question on it, “What must a sinner do to be saved?” Then, suppose that you took that piece of paper to the ten closest “churches” to your home and asked for their response. After recording their responses on that sheet of paper and reviewing them, would it…
Perhaps you have seen the memes that poke fun, “They had one job…but failed.” There’s the picture of a coffee cup with the handle on the inside of the cup. There’s the Fire Zone painted on the blacktop in front of a supermarket that is spelled “FRIE.” There’s the “Back to School” display at a big-box store with racks full of chef’s…
Has someone ever asked you to do something that you really didn’t want to do, or they asked you to help when it really wasn’t convenient? When you went ahead and helped anyway, did you let them know (even if just in a subtle way) that you were doing them a favor and messing up your schedule to assist them, so that…
On the night before Jesus was crucified, He gathered with His disciples and instituted what the early church called “the Lord’s Supper” (1 Cor. 11:20) or “the communion” (1 Cor. 10:16). This is the most sacred of all feasts, for it commemorates the “body” and the “blood” of Jesus, which He willingly sacrificed on the cross for our sins (Matt. 26:26-28). Is…