Have you ever sat through a boring sermon?  Ha!  “Nearly everyone I’ve heard borders on boring,” someone might say.  What makes a sermon “boring”?  Is it the preacher?  Some speakers are rather boring in themselves, right?  Some speakers are easier to listen to than others, aren’t they? Is it the subject?  Some topics are more enthralling than others, right?  Of course, some…

This past week has truly been a delight to me because of the gospel meeting I was part of with the Arlington congregation in McMinnville, Tennessee. I believe you will be thrilled to see what a congregation with less than a hundred members can do in preparation for the meeting. Perhaps their example will encourage the church in every place as they…

“It’s time for your annual checkup!” This sentence may cause a sudden sense of dread in many of us. But as much as we might hate going to the doctor, visiting once a year can help you stay healthy and uncover potential health risks. One of the things the doctor will do is get out his stethoscope, listen to the rhythm of…

There are few moments in the life of a Christian that compare to the feeling that comes at the moment of salvation. You have finally given in to the call to repentance (Acts 2:38) and put on Christ in baptism (Gal. 3:27), washing away all the guilt of sin (Acts 22:16). That feeling, however, can easily fade away if you were not…

When we read the New Testament and study the Greek language behind our English translations, we find out that the Greeks had more than one word for “love,” and each of those words had a distinctive meaning.  While the word agape existed in the Greek language before Jesus came to earth, Jesus came and snatched that word from the common language of…

King Nebuchadnezzar was filled with pride because of the massive image he had made of gold. That image stood nine stories high and was nine feet wide at its base. Imagine how much gold it would have taken to make this image. His arrogance caused him to demand the gathering of all the government officials, even from the most distant reaches of…

We see a lot of change in our lifetimes. It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were waiting hours for a five minute video to download on dial-up internet. Now, we can stream 8K ultra-high-definition video instantly. The changes get even more extreme when we talk about our culture and religion. The public’s view of long-held Christian values has totally shifted…

It frustrates me when people talk about “the God of the Old Testament was vengeful, but the God of the New Testament was loving.”  They don’t know God!  It angers me when people say that “God only wants to send people to hell.”  They don’t know God!  It riles me when people claim that “God was just looking for people to make…