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The Temperate Life (Part 1)
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…
Giving Help to the Hurting (Part 3)
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…
Giving Help to the Hurting (Part 2)
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…
Giving Help to the Hurting (Part 1)
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…
Quarantine Lessons (Part 2)
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,”…
Quarantine Lessons (Part 1)
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…
Teens (Bible) – Part 2
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…
Teens (Bible) – Part 1
We have taken as a theme for the 2020 year, “Let the Word of Christ Dwell in You Richly” from Colossians 3:16. I preached an opening message to our church on this passage. It was interesting to note that the word dwell in the text has the idea of taking residence. This is what the…
Biblical Hospitality (Part 2)
Our understanding of hospitality is further developed in the New Testament. Consider the familiar account of the Good Samaritan in Luke: “And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by…
Biblical Hospitality (Part 1)
“Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality” (Romans 12:13). “And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the…