Christian fellowship is supposed to be godly friendship; it is friendship with a goal to live for the LORD, to worship Him with our lives, to build each other up in God’s way. Fellowship is supposed to go beyond the friendship that we normally experience in the world because our world encourages ...

God gives us an amazing example of how to pray in the gospels. It is a statement from this prayer that I want to highlight for us today, “…and do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from the evil one” (MATTHEW 6:13). Temptations are by their nature seductive. We need to be people who recog...

This modern world is seriously confusing. Our culture is completely driven by what a person feels versus a real, tangible reality. We believe that reality changes based on how we feel. We need only to look at the modern ideas swirling around the transgender issue to see this. If someone believes ...

In our reading today we have come to the very famous Biblical passage about love. It has been recited at countless marriages and I’m sure seminars, sermons, and counselling sessions as well. It’s funny because we all seem to think that we know what love is. We’ve all experienced it in our lives, ...

The uniqueness of Christianity truly rests in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Very few people try to deny that Jesus Christ existed as a historical figure, but many people do deny that He rose from the dead. This is because accepting Jesus’ resurrection from the dead would also mean accepting H...

The Bible seems to point to what we’ve come to call the age of accountability. That means that children grow into the capacity to accept or reject right or wrong. Before this point, if they were to die, they would be forgiven and accepted by Christ. At some point in our lives, we have all gotten ...

There are many different forms of pain, but it is always uncomfortable, and let’s face it, we normally don’t like to be uncomfortable. We can truly learn important things through pain, though. Pain alerts us to something that is going wrong in our bodies or our hearts and minds. It is information...

When you dream about your future with Christ it should not be limited by what you have, it should be based on your faith that God desires us to build His Kingdom well. What I mean to say is this, faith or trust in God is essential to the Christian life. Paul the apostle spoke to the Corinthian ch...

I see it all over the internet and television, l hear it on the radio, and worst of all, it even exists in churches. People who claim to be from God but are not. False prophets. False teachers. When we do not place the Word of God in our hearts and minds, we can be easily deceived. People can sou...

We must be committed to the truth! In 2 Corinthians 13:8, Paul says, “For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” The only way to live in the will of God is to be committed to His truth. Our problem today is that we have so much information coming at us all the time, it can be ea...

It is all too easy to get tired of trying to do the right thing. All around us we see evil, we see people like us working against the good. It can be hard to keep our eyes on Jesus and off the world, but that is what we have to do! The reality is, there are many people whom God has living for Him...

What is the New Testament talking about when it mentions the mysteries of Christ? It is talking about God’s miracle working power, it is talking about the concept of eternal life, it is talking about the nature of God in general, and specifically, in our reading today, it’s talking about God’s pl...

As we’re reading through Ephesians, it is interesting to remember back to the book of Acts when it describes Paul’s visit and work in the city of Ephesus. Back in Acts 19 we see Paul begin to preach there first in the synagogue of that city (ACTS 1 9 : 8 ), but his message was rejected there. In ...

The book of Philippians has a very different tone to it than the other New Testament letters written by Paul. Paul is not confronting the church at Philippi with any major sins or combating false teaching, he is writing to encourage them. His main encouragement revolves around them continuing in ...

If you are a Christian, and have surrendered your life to Jesus Christ, then your life is priceless! Your life is to be shared with everyone who is near you. Eternal life is a big deal! We are told not to ignore our new life but to share it. This is our testimony about the work of Jesus Christ: T...

Our life changes when we become a Christian. We tend to begin to think and live differently. In some cases, we may have to make new friends. There are significant changes in our lives when we come to Jesus Christ and submit to His ways. This is important because there are many who say they are Ch...

In Acts 17, Paul visits a synagogue in Thessalonica. He had great success for several weeks as he preached the message of Jesus Christ. Many Greeks and Jews followed his teaching, but those who were not convinced by Paul’s teaching became jealous and chose to gather a mob from the marketplace and...

In this life, in this place, at this time, what does it mean to walk properly as a follower of Christ? Many would say, “Just do what Jesus would do.” The problem is that very few have read the Bible to know what Jesus did. We need to understand what Paul the apostle wrote to the Thessalonian Chri...

There is an appointed or a chosen time, when God will punish those who have willfully rejected Him. That time will happen in God’s perfect plan, not in ours. We see this spoken of very boldly in our reading today in 2 Thessalonians 1. These first twelve verses of 2 Thessalonians highlight the rea...

Challenging false doctrine and teaching, safeguarding public worship, and developing mature leadership are the main focuses of First Timothy. The book, originally a letter, was addressed to a man named Timothy, whom Paul considered a true son in the faith, and who had stepped in as pastor of the ...