Love Made Perfect 17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But Read more…
Baby Like Appetites 1 Peter 2:2,3 – as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. One man began by saying, “I’m so hungry I could eat a cow.” The second man, joined in Read more…
Praying in Song Having read many of the Psalms, I have noticed over and over that many of them are prayers turned into a song or vice versa. Many of the hymns in our song books read like prayers. The following prayer has been constructed using the titles of spiritual Read more…
Lessons from an Alien Life Form So what do you do in the evenings when you are home bound during the Covid-19 crisis for weeks. You binge watch TV shows. I can think of no more appropriate show to watch than ALF sitcoms. He is the funny little alien from Read more…
Modeling Jesus When I first agreed to teach the new two-year-old class, I must admit I was a little bit apprehensive. It had been twenty years since I last taught this age group and my daughter, Tia, was one of my students. The day before beginning this class I told Read more…
Would You Give Up Eating Bacon? Last Saturday my two granddaughters were sitting next to me at the dinner table. They were eating chicken nuggets. Kenzie, who is five, made the observation that chicken comes from chickens. Then she leaned over to me and asked, “so where does beef come Read more…
Abraham, Father of the Faithful Abraham is mentioned seventy-four times in the New Testament; more than any other Old Testament character. He is called the “Father of all them that believe” (Rom 4:11). There were many times in the life of Abraham when his faith was put to the test. Read more…
How Well Do You Know the Bible? Biblical illiteracy is a spiritual bane to many Christians, congregations, Bible Classes, etc. It has a profound effect on all aspects of life. Due to ignorance, Christians lack the ability to defeat temptation and remain faithful unto death. Therefore, they will lose their Read more…
Ancient Ads Found in Egypt Would you believe when they were interpreting the hieroglyphics found on the wall of an ancient Egyptian city, they found the following advertisement for the “Pyramid Brick Company.” It read: “Are you planning on building a new city, public buildings, pyramids or just a small Read more…
In Control in an out of Control World Joseph – Gen. 39:7-20 Joseph was the favorite son of Jacob. His favored position, plus his prophetic dreams, caused great envy and jealously among his eleven other brothers. One day they cast him in a pit and were going to kill him, Read more…