The mercy of God does not get nearly as much press time as the grace of God does. Everyone wants to talk about God’s grace, and to be sure, the grace of God is worth discussing and keeping in the forefront of our minds, but the mercy of God deserves a lot of thought time […]
Jesus taught many wonderful and powerful parables. One of His most famous ones is The Parable of the Good Samaritan. Let’s take a few minutes tonight to revisit it. The purpose of this parable is to teach us the importance of loving our neighbors. A life spent doing good for others is a life well-lived. […]
The local church is a group of Christians who agree to work together in a specific geographic location. The pattern clearly outlined in the New Testament is for those who obey the gospel, having been added to the one universal church by the Lord (Acts 2:47), to join local churches (Acts 9:26-27). We read about […]
The greatest characteristic a Christian can have is love. It must be the proper kind of love. Not a love that ignores error or refuses to stand for what is right, for that is not really love at all, but rather, a cheap imitation of it. Proper love, however, is indispensable to our Christianity. Without […]
While we know that death is inevitable, through Christ we have victory over it. We can look beyond the misery and darkness that surrounds death, and even the uncertainty of what shall come beyond it, for we are more than conquerors in Christ, even over death. I know that death is one of those things […]
Grace is one of the most misunderstood topics in the Bible. It has always been a source of false doctrine, some formed from honest hearts that are led astray by the man-made theology of “faith alone,” while others are set forth by those with sinister motives. Jude spoke of the latter group. Jude 1:4 (ESV) […]
Webster defines religion as “the service and worship of God.” As followers of Jesus Christ, serving and worshiping God should be what characterizes our lives. Paul once said, “For to me to live is Christ…” That was his religion, and it should be ours too. There are a lot of religious people in the world; […]
During his second missionary journey, Paul made a visit to Thessalonica, where he enjoyed some success in disseminating the gospel of Christ (Acts 17:1-4). “Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews: And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and […]
In Psalms 118:6, the Psalmist made the statement, “The Lord is on my side…” With the state of things being what they are in our society today, we sometimes need help to cope. We need advice that can help us out of difficult situations or that will prevent us from getting into those situations in […]
We have taken this week to examine the warnings given to us in Hebrews 12:15-17. Read the passage one more time. Hebrews 12:15-17 (ESV) 15 See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled; 16 […]