The above title is taken from a Rocky Creek congregation bulletin article that is worthy of reproduction here. I’ve added appropriate Scriptures.

How can God justly put man’s sin upon an innocent victim? There are only two ways in which God can justly put a man’s sin upon an innocent victim. First, God may do such when the victim has no moral value. This was the case under the Old Covenant when God commanded animal sacrifices be […]

Through a study of the Scriptures, we see that the fear of God has a restraining effect upon the lives of godly men and women (Genesis 39:7-12), but is found absent in a calloused, deluded, unbelieving and godless society (Romans 3:10-12; cf. Psalm 14:1-3).

As men, if we’ve ever tried to repair something and failed, we know how miserable a feeling that can be. Married women should appreciate the sign that I recently saw outside an automotive repair shop: “We Will Fix What Your Husband Fixed.” Whether the problem is the car or the plumbing, it’s usually better off, […]

There are many and sundry reasons the Bible gives for our studying the sacred volume. The following are just a “few” of those reasons:

Marcus Tullius Cicero, an orator and statesman of ancient Rome once said, “While there’s life, there’s hope.” As Christians, we have the promise and hope of eternal life, because the risen Christ lives (1 Corinthians 15:19-22; 1 John 2:25; 1 Peter 1:3). There are some things in this life, however, that are irreversible, and any […]

On Saturday morning, February 1, 2003, as most of us were awakening, President George W. Bush spoke seven saddening words to the nation: “The Columbia’s lost. There are no survivors.” When an fiery accident destroyed NASA’s oldest space shuttle moments before the scheduled end of its twenty-eighth voyage, seven people — five men, two women […]

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the US Gulf Coast and displaced an estimated 1.3 million households. With cities and towns evacuated, homes destroyed, and jobs gone, people relocated to communities in every state. Because Christians are

As I observe the speed limit of 60 miles per hour on our I-10 freeway here in El Paso, I also observe other folks who are seemingly obsessed with speed. They swiftly pass my vehicle at speeds that have to be exceeding 75-80 miles per hour.

Wrath of God — Bible Lesson by Kevin Cauley on God’s wrath. The Lesson points out God’s righteousness and man’s culpability when it comes to the wrath of God.

The question might be raised: “What right does God have to demand our respect?” The answer is seen in the following four categories: 1) His Perfect Justice (Deuteronomy 32:4). God had been true to His covenant with the Jews and their fathers. “Nothing” that He had promised had failed (1 Kings 8:56). If any severe […]

What will keep us serving the Lord in His church (Matthew 16:18) and our community when the going gets tough? Although we may be sensitive to the needs of others, that alone isn’t enough. Nor should we be driven by a need that we all have  a desire to be appreciated or loved by others.

The following barbs of wisdom come from the current The Sword and Staff publication, 2010, Vol. 48, No. 1, pg. 13 (appropriate Scriptures and related articles have been added):

Many are familiar with the argument that has been presented in favor of the personal indwelling of the Holy Spirit from Acts 2:41. This verse states, “Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.” It is pointed out that these three […]

The following rules of interpretation are not some “special rules” belonging only to Bible study. They are identical to the rules that we ordinarily employ in our daily interchange of thoughts

In Hebrews 11:1, the Hebrew writer gives us not so much a definition of what constitutes faith as a description of what faith does in the lives of men in the verses following (cf. Gal. 5:6; 1 Thessalonians 1:3; Hebrews 6:10; James 2:24). New Testament Christianity is a religion of “faith” (Romans 10:17). Faith is […]

Recently I had opportunity to visit the house of an atheist. On one of his end tables were some papers that caught my attention because the title contained “God.” It was, however, an effort by someone to prove that God does not exist. It had originally been published in one of the major newspapers as […]

Man’s life is laid in the loom of time To a pattern he does not see While the weavers and shuttles fly Till the dawn of eternity.

In Exodus Chapters 7-12, we see that God seized the attention of Pharaoh and the Egyptians with a series of plagues. Now they were dying to be rid of their Hebrew slaves.

Somewhere in our world at this very moment, a farmer is dropping seeds into the ground. Soon those seeds will begin to change the surrounding soil in which they were planted.