The reciprocal pronoun “one another” is found 89 times in 81 verses in the New Testament, emphasizing the great responsibility that Christians have to “one another.” The most practical book for daily Christian living (i.e., the book of James) has the expression in three verses.  First, “Do not speak evil against one another” (4:11). Stop for a moment. Do you speak against…

The title of this article will make some people uncomfortable. Some will say, “Oh, we don’t have to show off! He knows our hearts!” Yes, God knows our hearts! But “showing God our faith” is not (when done right) showing off! In Mark 2, four men (1) “carried” a paralytic to Jesus, the Healer, (2) “uncovered the roof where He was,” and…

Our money has a way of defining us and even–when we are not careful and deliberate–controlling us. And the more money we acquire in life, the more this statement is proven true. Of course, many of us quickly deny such a claim. But the Bible offers warning after warning regarding how we must handle our money and not let our money handle…

After Lydia and her family were baptized into Christ (in Acts 16), Paul cast a demon out of a certain slave girl, which enraged her masters. A multitude was stirred up against Paul and Silas, who were “seized,” “dragged into the marketplace,” “beaten with rods” with “many stripes,” thrown “into the inner prison” with their feet “fastened…in the stocks” (16:19-24). Although a…

Folks, our world (and that includes some of us) has a “lumping” problem! And, for the sake of Christ, it needs to stop! We must stop lumping people into indiscriminate categories and then making baseless judgments about a person or  persons in “that category.” This happens when people/we say, “Black people are ___. White people are ___. Men are ___. Women are…

We are living in interesting times. Cultural trends seem to be shifting further and further away from clear Biblical truth. We are told that we are living in “post-truth” times. As a result, “soils” around us are changing. Many hearts that were once “good soil” now seem to be “thorny”; many “thorny” soils now seem “stony”; and many “stony” soils now seem…

If you put “light” and “darkness” in the same room, what would they have in common? Could they find a level of fellowship that they could enjoy? If you put “righteousness” and “lawlessness” in the same room, what would they have in common? Could they establish a partnership together? If you put Christ and Satan in the same room, what would they…

Sometimes we whisper so that we don’t disturb someone who is sleeping. Sometimes we whisper about a surprise birthday party to keep it a secret. But, other times we whisper so that a person doesn’t know that we are saying something about her, that we don’t want her to know that we are saying, to someone with whom we should not be…