Certainly teachers have heard “every excuse in the book,” and then some! Along with the teachers, parents are in that same boat — no excuse surprises them anymore! But, here’s what I’d like you to consider. Are Christians writing a whole new volume of excuses? It’s not just kids anymore, but adult Christians are finding “every excuse in the book” to justify…

Oops! Could that get me in trouble with God? To tell God that I hate certain persons on this earth (ones whom He has created and ones for whom His Son died) — surely doing something like that must be close to being an “unpardonable sin,” wouldn’t you think? Read these words of David, a man after God’s own heart. “[The wicked]…

Probably every generation since Adam has looked at the next generation and wondered, “What’s wrong with ‘that generation’?” The next generation never seems to quite “live up” to the expectations of the generation before it. However, could we possibly look at a generation and say, “What’s right with ‘that generation’?” I would suggest to you that when you boil it all down,…

I got in line behind a young man who was wearing a brown t-shirt that had text on the front and the back. The front read, “Jesus: Because of Him” and the back, “Heaven Knows Your Name.” The friendly young man, who had a Down Syndrome-like appearance, turned when he saw me and said, “If you need a good church, go to…

The goal and practice of the early church towards new converts is worthy of our attention and emulation. Early Christians were eager to teach the gospel to the lost and longed to baptize each person with whom they studied, so that the individual’s sins might be washed away by the blood of Jesus. They even urged, with persuasive words, a lost person…

It is profoundly clear in the New Testament that baptism is a prerequisite for one’s salvation from sins and the eternal consequences thereof. It certainly takes some maneuvering to make Acts 2:38 say that baptism is NOT for the remission of sins and to make 1 Peter 3:21 say that baptism does NOT save. Bible teaching, in that regard, is plain. The…

If you wanted to travel from where you are to St. Louis, Missouri, how would you get there?  First of all, what means of travel would you take?  The options are numerous: plane, train, automobile, boat, bus, bike, horse, camel, hot air balloon, wheelchair, pogo stick, etc.  Which one would you choose?  Next, once you determined your means of travel, what pathway…

There was a time when a lack of clothing on a person’s body in public evoked a sense of shame-shame within that person’s heart, shame within his family and friends, shame felt by others for him, shame felt by others for his family and friends. In fact, the Bible speaks of such shame from nakedness, in both literal and metaphorical contexts. It…