Mark chapter eleven records that time when the Jewish leaders came to Jesus and asked Him a great question all religious leaders should be asked. Their motives for asking the question were wrong, but their question gives great insight into the path to have a relationship with God. The question was, “By what authority are You doing these things? And who gave…

I opened a new savings account last month. My wife and I were looking for a safe way to save money. So, we opened an account with a bank that is FDIC insured. This means that the federal government guarantees that even if the bank fails, our money will be returned to us. So, we accepted the terms. There is good reason…

Let’s do some word studies and then make the application. In the book of First John, there are several words that are key terms, which are used repeatedly in the book.  One of them is the word “know.”  There is more than one Greek word that is translated “know” in English, but I want to focus only on the uses of the…

His longtime friend was succumbing to a terminal illness and only had a short time to live.  The Christian gentleman sat by his bedside and tried again to do the same thing he had oft tried before—to talk to his buddy about Jesus.  He wanted nothing more than for his friend to leave this life prepared to meet his Savior.  But the…

I am not sure what the British people thought when they read the King James Version in the early seventeenth century. In places it probably made more sense to them than it does to us who read the English Bible published in 1611. Look at one verse and then let’s look at it together. It says, “See then that ye walk circumspectly,…

Some distractions are unavoidable and created by others—like when someone literally gets in your face.  Other distractions, even if created by others, are easier to disregard and can be managed, if we try.  So, think about a place where distractions exist but we wish they didn’t—in a worship assembly.  But, how many of the distractions are self-imposed?  Or, how many could we…

Recently, there has been a trend amongst so-called “progressive Christians” to subvert plain Biblical teaching in various places in the Bible. They will make wild claims, like the word translated as “homosexual” in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10 meaning something different, although the word literally means “a male who engages in sexual activity with a person of his own sex.”…

Sometimes we fail to understand faith and the role that it plays in our lives. Thankfully, the Bible describes the source of our faith as coming from what God says. Paul says, “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Rom. 10:17). This is why the Great Commission Jesus gave just before His ascension is so important.…