“God wants me to go to church, so I am there, in fact, most Sundays. I am a pretty good person, and I don’t go around committing the big sins. I’d say that I’m a ‘faithful Christian.’” Such a sentiment can probably be (and likely is) expressed by many folks, but is it truly the case that “good folks” who “go to church regularly” are…

Can you think of something that you absolutely always want and expect others to give to you, but you are hesitant and stubborn to give to anyone else? Wow! That could be a lot of things, right? Go ahead and start that list. But think about putting this on the top of that list – the benefit of the doubt. You always want and expect others to…

A modern proverb suggests, “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.” Many people think that’s in the Bible, but those words actually are not. Also, “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” That’s a great saying, but those exact words are not in Scripture. Yet,…

In a battle between Iron Man (Tony Stark) and Iron Monger (Obadiah Stane) near the end of the 2008 Iron Man movie, Tony “ripped out” the “targeting system” from Obadiah’s suit. As a result, Obadiah could not shoot straight and kept missing his target. Could it be that some Christians have had their “targeting systems” ripped out – either by choice, by negligence…

In the television series “The Mandalorian,” the Mandalorians live by a code (which basically summarizes their belief system) that is captured in the simple phrase, “This is the way.” Of course, as has been the case for hundreds of years, Scripture permeates culture. To begin with, Jesus Himself stated, “I am the way” (John 14:6). He didn’t say that He was “one of the…

“Immediately” after Saul of Tarsus became a Christian, “he preached the Christ…that He is the Son of God” (Acts 9:20). This wasn’t just something that he went around saying to other people. Verse 22 states, “Saul…confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this Jesus is the Christ.” Those who did not believe in the deity of Jesus were stirred, amazed and confounded –…

There is great power in prayer. Prayer can truly “avail much” (Jas. 5:16), but it cannot save an alien sinner from his sins. Consider the conversion of Saul of Tarsus.  Saul would later call himself the “chief” of “sinners” (1 Tim. 1:15). Was he saved from his sins by praying? In Acts 9, Jesus appeared to Saul on the road to Damascus. Jesus told Saul to “go…

There is no better part of your day (don’t even try to argue against this!) than when you get to read your Bible! Thus, reading it should be a principal part of each day. But, we must do more than merely run our eyes over lines of text. We must take time to understand it. The Ethiopian eunuch was reading from Isaiah 53, but Philip…