The Lord’s church is “well” when it practices the following activities as outlined in Acts 2:41-47:

In the New Testament, Abraham is described as the father of the faithful (Romans 4:11; Gal. 3:6-7) and “the friend of God” (James 2:23-NKJV). Abraham demonstrated several

In all my years as a Christian, the following are some reasons (?) I’ve heard as to why folks delay in becoming a Christian, along with a brief response:

The Jews clearly understood that God’s commandment not to kill refers to murder – the malicious taking of human life (Exodus 20:13). It doesn’t forbid governments to use the

Lot was the son of Haran and the nephew of Abraham, (Genesis 11:27). Following Haran’s death, he went with Terah, his grandfather, and Abraham to Ha-ran (Genesis 11:31). After Terah’s death, he and Abraham went to Canaan (Genesis 12:5). Following a

As Christians, most of us are not engaged in pulpit ministry. Our time between Sundays is spent doing secular work that might not seem to have value for the spread of the gospel. Therefore, we may view ourselves as second-class disciples. That may have been the way some members of the church in Colosse regarded […]

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Precious Life Is life precious? There are so many in the world today who don’t believe such. With the problems of abortion, suicide, and euthanasia, we see that many do not value life. Terrorists that sacrifice themselves to murder others don’t believe in the preciousness of life. The Bible teaches that life is precious and […]

Paul At Mars Hill Paul’s sermon on Mars Hill in Athens, Greece was one of the most influential sermons on the western world. By exposing the idolatry of the Athenians, Paul sets forth the one true God. The Athenians response was less than appreciative. Nevertheless, Christianity still survives while the gods of the ancient world […]

A reporter once asked President Herbert Hoover, “Mr. President, how do you handle criticism? Do you ever get agitated or tense?” “No,” President Hoover replied, seemingly surprised at the question, “of course not.”

The context of Ezekiel’s writing was during the time of Judah’s 70 year captivity in Babylon. Many of the Jews who were carried away into captivity were innocent, and were not responsible for the sins which had caused Judah to be carried away into Babylon.

A querist asks, “In 1 Corinthians Chapter 7, Paul refers a couple of times to be speaking under “his own opinion” in regard to marriage. In one sense he even basically says “this is

A querist asks, “It would seem that death is all around us. Someone dies – you know the lifestyle they lived was not good, and you know their feelings about God were not good – does one pray for God’s mercy regarding that person?”

Several years ago, a national dry goods association conducted a survey of sales representatives to determine how many sales calls each representative needed to make on a prospective client before convincing the client to place an order. The results were eye-opening.

You heard it here first friends — the end of the world — the day of Christ’s revealing and God’s final judgment will occur on April 5, 2007. How does this writer know? I read it on the Internet, of course. An 80-year-old Sanford, North Carolina man named Frank J. Potter, is proclaiming Christ’s second […]

A querist asks, “Is Psalm 110 a Messianic Psalm? The problem that Jesus posed to the Pharisees in Matthew 22:41-46, gives clear evidence that the Jews accepted Psalms 110 as being Messianic. Jesus was able to use the passage

The Lord’s Day is unlike any other day of the week. When John received his vision from the Lord of future events while exiled on the island of Patmos, he spoke of it as

One day when the Pharisees saw Jesus eating with publicans and sinners, they asked Jesus’ disciples, “Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?” (Matthew 9:10-11). When Jesus heard what they said, He replied to them, “They that be whole

A querist asks, “Does the phrase, ‘second death’ in the book of Revelation, imply in any way the doctrine of reincarnation?”

God has always been willing to reach out to sinful man (John 3:16-17; Romans 5:8; Titus 2:11; 2 Peter 3:9; cf. Ezekiel 33:11). As Christians, we can be assured that if we ask, we