Read God’s Word regularly. “You guide me with your counsel,and afterward you will receive me to glory” (Psalm 73:24). However, the Bible is not like a “Magic 8 Ball.” We don’t open the Bible, let our finger fall on a verse, and take that as God’s answer. Even in our...
This is an important verse. Don’t hide your sin. Confess it. Bring it into Light and God will forgive you and wash it away. Your job is to confess and repent. Choose to love God and others and not your sin. Ask Him to wash it away and help you choose right. ...
Let’s read a verse and consider the message. Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. As a young man, I was headstrong and determined to do the right thing, to be the Christian that does it right. I poured myself into...
Mark’s account is different from Luke’s in that in verse 43 Jesus called his disciples to highlight the contrast between the giving of the widow and that of the rich. Three verses later, one of the disciples made a remark about the magnificence of the temple building, which is remarkabl...
2 Tim. 3:14 – Protestants usually use 2 Tim. 3:16-17 to prove that the Bible is the sole authority of God’s word. But examining these texts disproves their claim. Here, Paul appeals to apostolic tradition right before the Protestants’ often quoted verse 2 Tim. 3:16-17. Thus, the...
Here’s how David responds in verse 17, “When David saw the angel who was striking down the people, he said to the Lord, ‘I have sinned; I, the shepherd, have done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? Let your hand fall on me and my family.’” I agree, David....
(the desert)I will build My Churchis as if foreseeing that the entire Church, or almost all of her, would be built with a desert, eremiticcharacter.”[59]But in another place,[60]someone of like mind with Rozanov interprets the same verse in a different way: Why was the Church ...
How about this verse? “But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” (Matthew 18:6KJV) ...
Another interesting phrase not often discussed is “we who are still alive and are left.”The coming of Christ is destructive (See especially 2 Peter 3, especially Verse 7). The lost are being “kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.” So those who are “left” ar...
But, adults need to be allowed to make their own decisions, right or wrong. Well… I have a friend who smokes cigarettes. She also has allergies and asthma that requires an inhaler. She knows that she shouldn’t smoke – but she does it anyway. Should I agree with her when she says...