The Benefits of Trials
There are two facts about life which you, as a Christian, should accept: 1) Your life is filled with challenges, and 2) Your life should be a life of continual growth and improvement. Life challenges and growth go hand-in-hand. The more challenges you face, the more opportunities you have to grow and improve yourself. This [...]
read more
Who Does God Forsake?
The religious world’s general perception of God is that God does not forsake anyone. Many people believe in the perseverance of the saints. That is to say, once you are saved, then you can never be lost. However, as we will show in this article, the Bible contains warnings about God forsaking certain people.
read more
Lessons from the Church in Sardis
In the latter years of his life, the apostle John was living in exile on the island called Patmos. While living on this island, John received instructions from the Lord to write seven letters, each to a specific church in Asia. Of the seven letters, only two letters, the letters to the congregations in Smyrna [...]
read more
What God Authorizes for Organizing His Church
The word “church,” in the New Testament, sometimes is used in a general sense referring to all of the people of God. In this sense, there is but one church and this one church has no earthly overseer: “Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body” (Ephesians 5:23). The [...]
read moreIs The Lord’s Church Changing for the Better or Worse?
In 2004 one of our Christian Universities held a Lectureship that has clearly defined the terms for reforming the Churches of Christ in the 21st century. These reforms will fundamentally change the Church of Christ as we know it unless we stand for the truth. A few of the key elements of this reformation movement [...]
read more
Are You Willing To Rebuke Satan?
On Thursday of this past week, my family and I were reading of Jesus’ time spent in the wilderness. (Specifically, we read Matthew 4:1-11. However, Luke 4:1-13 is a parallel record of Jesus’ time in the wilderness.) During this study, we learned three great lessons about one’s willingness to rebuke the devil. I would like [...]
read more“If I Only Come to Sunday Morning Worship, Will I Still Go to Heaven?”
I don’t know, but the question does tell me that you have an attitude problem. Doing only what you have to do is legalism. This attitude will ultimately lead you to fall from grace because you’re trying to get there with minimum religious works. This question reveals a lack of knowledge regarding the faith. This [...]
read moreJesus Saves but You Must Make the Deposit
A few years ago when I was preaching in Olathe, Ks. I read some graffiti in a bathroom that said “Jesus saves but you must make the deposit.” First let me say that Christians should never be involved in destroying someone’s property by writing graffiti on walls. However, the statement is thought provoking. When we [...]
read more
Casualness Causing Casualties
Have you ever given much thought to what it means to approach a task or an idea with a casual attitude? Consider the definition of the word “casual.” The word “casual” is defined as: “2 a : occurring without regularity . . . 3 a (1) : feeling or showing little concern . . . [...]
read moreCan You Forsee the Future?
You and I live in a world that marches along one second at a time. In a very literal sense, neither you nor I can tell what the next second, the next minute, or the next hour may bring. By inspiration, James wrote, “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to [...]
read more