Not Another Gospel! Part One 6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7 which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 Read more…
Outdated, Obsolete Oddities If you chance to own an older home or visit one, you may be surprised by the number of items found which seem not to serve any legitimate purpose. These may have been necessities or even luxuries just a few short decades ago. Now these oddities have Read more…
Leading the Blind Have I ever mentioned my good friend Russ? Well, Russ was the manager of the Sohio gas station just a few blocks from the high school. I started working for him the summer I turned sixteen. One day I was working on a Saturday with my friend Read more…
Just Call Me “Mephibosheth” 2 Samuel 9:1-13 How do you pronounce “Mephibosheth.” It is pronounced Me phib o sheth. I don’t know anyone by that name. No one I know is that good of a speller. Who was he other than a good speller? Mephibosheth means “one who scatters shame.” Read more…
Free to Love For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” But if you Read more…
Limitations of the Law What purpose then does the law serve? It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was appointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. Now a mediator does not mediate for one only, but Read more…
Casting Out the Demon at Capernaum Mark 1:21-28; Luke 4:31-37 Do you know what happens when you get behind on your payments to your exorcist? You get repossessed. Unless, of course, your exorcist was Jesus, who never charged anyone for His services. When Jesus was rejected by the people of Read more…
Burden Bearing 102 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. Read more…
Burden Bearing 101 Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted – Galatians 6:1 What are Christians to do when their brother is overtaken by sin? Should they pity Read more…
Listeners: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Acts 13:42-52 It is just as important how a person listens as it is to what they are listening to. Perhaps this is why Jesus said, “Therefore take heed how you hear” (Luke 8:18a). If a man lives a total of eighty Read more…