When Paul arrived in Thessalonica, his body showed the shameful treatment he had received at Philippi. He and Silas had just been dragged into the marketplace, brought before the magistrates who ripped their garments off of them and publicly beaten them with rods, and they received many stripes. They were thrown into jail where they could hardly move because their feet were…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
2026 Bulletin Articles (Page 6)
There are so many things we could say about what makes the Bible so great. We could talk about how it was transferred and preserved over so many centuries or how it never contradicts itself though it was written by about 40 men of incredibly diverse backgrounds. But, sometimes it’s best to just let the Bible speak for itself. In Psalm 19,…
I remember a young lady once hearing a lesson on First Thessalonians 5:22 and coming out and saying, “I had no idea that verse was in the Bible.” Like many, she had danced around various worldly behaviors, trying to justify certain ones with statements like, “Well, the Bible doesn’t really address that specifically.” This verse hit her hard. While it’s a short…
The closing words of the book of Ecclesiastes should be remembered by every person on this earth. The wisest man of the Old Testament, Solomon, said, “For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil” (12:14). That phrase, “every secret thing,” when fully understood, will change your life. It will…
For many of us born in the 1980s, the first time we heard the word “awesome” was from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But it wasn’t just cartoons using the word, it was all over popular media, usually being the choice word of characters falling under the surfer guy stereotype. By the time I was in middle school, “awesome” had become a…
At the beginning of His message to Judah through the prophet Isaiah, God called, as it were, His people to the courtroom. They had wronged the God of heaven, and now there was an eternity-sized case against them. God calls them to examine the evidence, to investigate the charges against them, to accept the Lord’s righteous judgments and to properly respond to…
Over the years, I have been part of conversations where people talked about just how good their mother/grandmother cooked a particular part of a meal. Or it may have been a friend who gave them a recipe of her specialty, but part of the conversation said something like, “I have tried and tried to prepare it like she did, but there must…
How good is our God? James 1:17 says, “Every good and perfect gift is from above…” That means every blessing, every kindness and every mercy that we receive originates with our heavenly Father. The Lord has shaped the universe to our benefit. He “…formed the world to be inhabited…” (Isa. 45:18), gave it to man (Psa. 115:16), and gave us dominion over…