What do you do for a person who is living in opposition to God’s truth? This could be a person who has confessed being a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ or even a person who has not. The advice is very clear: 2 Timothy 2:24–26 (ESV) — 24 And the Lord’s servant must not […]

There’s a verse in the Bible that bids us to stop and ponder the fact that God loves us: 1 John 3:1 (NKJV) — 1 Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore, the world knows us not, because it knew him […]

There’s a great question posed in the 116th Psalm as the writer considers all the benefits he has received from God. Psalm 116:12–13 (ESV) — 12 What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits to me? 13 I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the […]

We read of minimum daily requirements on food containers as the manufacturer is required to list how this particular food fulfils a given percentage of what the government has determined to be a minimum daily requirement. In reality, to live a healthy lifestyle a person needs to be more concerned about more than the minimum […]

We are constantly trying to read meaning into events in life, as if they were speaking like the infamous handwriting on the wall. If you recall reading Daniel chapter five which is the account of Belshazzar, son of Nebuchadnezzar, who was hosting a party and drinking wine in the vessels from the house of God, […]

Picture the life of a person who does not have a plan for managing their time. They are constantly responding to the tyranny of the urgent, so much so that at the end of the day they are exhausted and wonder why they did not get the important things done and why they never have […]

Whenever people say they can be a Christian without being part of a local church body, they are missing a good portion of what the Bible describes of the accountability and interpersonal involvement in the words, “one another.” Depending upon the translation, you’ll find upwards of 24 times the words “one another” are used in […]

From the beginning of man’s existence, work was a source of fulfillment and joy. Think about Adam being placed in the Garden of Eden to work the garden and keep it. It was that very garden that God used to provide food for Adam and in that garden was but one tree that Adam was […]

Have you ever felt alone and even that God had abandoned you or at least was not paying attention to your cries? It’s important when you get in that state to have something to remind you of the truth. The book of Psalms is wonderful to have on hand for that very reason. We can […]

The Bible is full of superlatives as in the ongoing quest to find the words to adequately describe God and the things of God. A place to begin is God’s word, but even there the psalmist declares his need for God’s help in the first step even to beholding the wondrous things out of His […]