I saw a satirical article today about a Bible that, if it were real, might have become the next best-selling edition of our sacred text. The Babylon Bee article titled, “New Progressive Bible Features Perforated Pages for Easy Removal of Parts You Don’t Like,” hilariously points out how so many people treat the Word of God. Unfortunately, what The Bee calls satire…

Often times, when there is a study about putting on “the whole of armor of God,” which is described in Ephesians 6, there is great attention given to six pieces of Christian armor: the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit. …

What motivates you to wake up each day and live the Christian life? Is it the reward of heaven? Is it the promise of blessings in this life? When Jesus called His first disciples, He certainly gave them a great promise. In Mark 1:16-20, Jesus meets Simon Peter and Andrew while they were casting their fishing nets into the sea, followed soon…

The title of this series on New Testament churches is based upon the movie from years ago entitled, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”This approach does not fit the church in Philadelphia, for there was nothing bad or ugly known about this church. What a joy it would have been to have been part of the body of Christ in this…

The new school year is only two weeks away. Hopefully, the summer has been a good recharge for our kids. But you can’t be on break forever. At some point, you need to get back to work. There is work that God expects young people to do. Sometimes, we think about going to school, paying attention to classes, and doing homework as…

It is amazing how often a passage is misunderstood and misused, and yet equally amazing how simple that same passage really is.  Such is the case with 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.  These verses are often used to teach that Jesus will return and the church will be “caught up” (or “raptured”) to Him, and then either 1,000 years later or 1,007 years later,…

We continue our look at the seven churches of Asia which received John’s message from the island of Patmos. There were far more congregations than these seven for Paul’s work resulted in the spread of the gospel throughout all of Asia (Acts 19:10). God specifically chose these seven churches to help all other individuals and churches to profit from these messages (Rev.…

We continue looking at the New Testament church, seeing what good things they were doing but also looking at that which needed to be improved and then looking to the future to see what “ugly” and what “beautiful” things lay before them. By now you may have guessed we are looking at the seven churches of Asia mentioned in the book of…