Have you ever tried one of those taste tests, where they try to see how refined or how choosey your tastes really are? How well can you taste the difference in similar foods or drinks? Are you able to sense whether you will like the taste of something even before you try it? I love how God uses words (like “taste”) that…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 243)
If you were going to finish the sentence, “The Lord is in…,” how would you complete it? A familiar Biblical text states, “The Lord is in His holy temple” (Hab. 2:20). No doubt, “His holy temple” has some reference to heaven, for Psalm 11:4 says, “The Lord is in His holy temple, The Lord’s throne is in heaven.” Yes, the Lord is…
The toughest job on the entire planet is being a parent! “Train up a child in the way he should go” (Prov. 22:6). What parent hasn’t felt the overwhelming challenge of that command? “Bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord” (Eph. 6:4). Easier said than done! So, a Christian parent dedicates himself/herself to two decades of pointing those…
I am guessing that you’ve never heard anyone say that (or anything like it). “I’m gonna pass out if I don’t get to worship God soon!” Yep, it sounds a little “over-the-top” or “dramatic,” doesn’t it? Nobody would ever verbalize anything like that, let alone even think it! Well, a conclusion such as that would be…wrong! The heart of a worshiper…
There is a word used frequently of Paul’s preaching in the book of Acts and it is translated variously: Paul “reasoned with them from the Scriptures” (Acts 17:2; cf. 17:17; 18:4, 19; 19:8-9; 24:25); “disputing” (24:12); “preached” or “discoursed” or “talked with them” (20:7, 9). The Greek word fundamentally meant “to reason, to argue, to dispute, to revolve in the mind, to…
The revelation this past week that a man named Ariel Castro had kidnapped, sexually assaulted and held captive three women in his Cleveland home for more than a decade has just sickened me. I can hardly listen to or read the reports about this vile man and his vile acts. My heart aches and is crushed for these young women and all…
The account of the lynch stoning of Stephen (the first martyr for the cause of Christ) has many lessons for us to glean, but the posture of Jesus, when Stephen sees Him at the right hand of God, is of particular interest. Everywhere else in Scripture, it depicts Jesus (after His ascension and exaltation) as “sitting at the right hand of God”…
Abortion providers use neutral, non-specific and even uncommon terms to explain to their “clients” the nature of the entity in the womb and the procedures necessary to remove that unwanted matter. They use terms like “fetus,” “specimen,” “pregnancy termination,” “intrauterine demise,” “do the termination inside and then remove the pregnancy.” And, yet, the true nature of life in the womb is hard,…