What is Your Spiritual Temperature? When I was still quite small about three or four years of age, my mother was checking me for a temperature. She was using one of those glass, mercury filled thermometers. Some how I bit it in two. When my grandfather saw what I had Read more…
The Reliability of the Gospels Luke 1:1-4 1 Inasmuch as many have taken in hand to set in order a narrative of those things which [a]have been fulfilled among us, 2 just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us, 3 Read more…
The Christ-like Husband Ephesians 5:25-32 Marriage in the ancient world was in shambles. Demonsthenes said, “we have courtesans for the sake of pleasure; we have concubines for the sake of daily cohabitation; we have wives for the purpose of having children legitimately, and of having a faithful guardian for all Read more…
Parable of the Wedding Feast Throughout the Old Testament the prophets used both marriage and festivals to illustrate God’s intimate relationship with Israel (Is. 25:6; 65:13; 61:10; 62:5; Hos. 2:19). This parable combines both. John the Baptist referred to Jesus as the Bridegroom. “And Jesus answered and spoke to them Read more…
Troublesome Times Are Here But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather Read more…