In ancient times before the invention of artillery and heavy ordnance, to lay siege to a city took a lot of energy, time, and manpower.  It took Nebuchadnezzar, who had by far the strongest army at his time, a year and a half to take the relatively small city of Jerusalem. A few hundred years… Read more »

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The Biblical Example of Temperance Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.  And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.  Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.  I… Read more »

The key to the Christian life is turning the tough days into victorious days.  The Bible tells us that “greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.”  The Bible also tells us that we can be “more than conquerors.”  One of the ways that we learn this is to… Read more »

Lesson 2: Realize Where Your Authority Comes From “And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.  And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.  And there was in their synagogue a man… Read more »

As you can see from the previous examples, Moses, Joshua, and David all came to a place where they were speechless, angry, or fed up either with the situation they were dealing with or the people they were supposed to be ministering to.  As ministers of the Word of God, we can take hope that… Read more »

Giving Help to the Hurting As a preacher and someone who has been helping people in the ministry for close to three decades, I find that one of the hardest things to do is to give people the help that they need in times of trial, sin, and distress.  I don’t think that I am… Read more »

I would challenge you to take some time to study the whole context of Romans 14 (and of other similar passages).  These show the difference that has come under the new covenant established through Christ’s coming to earth.  We no longer live under the Old Testament law.  Baptists have rejected the idea of “replacement theology,”… Read more »

The past months have been frustrating, exacerbating, ridiculous, annoying; many other adjectives that could be used to describe them.  However, we have seen some amazing answers to prayer.  I believe that we also saw brought to light many philosophies and ideologies both of politicians and the average Christian in America. Here’s a couple of things… Read more »

1.  We should study the Word of God. As parents and authority in the lives of our young people, we need to be students ourselves of the Word of God.  A “do-as-I-say and not-as-I-do” attitude will ruin a young person in this area of the learning of the Word of God.  Our young people should… Read more »