(Part one) THE PRESENCE OF MONEY IN OUR lives is natural and constant. Like time, oxygen or gravity, money is a part of reality – a principle of life that cannot be escaped. Even in very simple cultures, where personal and business transactions were carried on through a system of barter, the concept of money […]
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel. – Matthew […]
Most of us are familiar with the words of Jesus in Luke 8:18, “Take heed therefore how ye hear” (KJV). It might also be suggested that we take heed how we see as well.. Generally speaking, our eyes play an important role in our faith because the Bible is a book to be read, reread, studied, analyzed […]
Jesus was the son of a carpenter; a fact attested to by the local residents of Nazareth, the town where he grew up (Matt. 13:55). There is little doubt that the wood craftsman skills of his father Joseph were also learned by Jesus. The custom in those days among the working class was that a […]
One of the most important objectives to be realized and soon undertaken by a Christian is that of maintaining a proper relationship to the world. In a very colorful way the book of First Peter teaches us how to live in this world – an often unfriendly and even hostile environment. The Christian is pictured, […]
MUCH can change in the span of a single generation. Forty-five years ago I was ten years old. That same year my father was about the age that I am now. My father also was a preacher, but I doubt if he ever preached a sermon in the mid 1960’s exclusively dedicated to such subjects […]
The imagery for New Testament descriptions of Hell is found in the Old Testament. Passages such as Jeremiah 19:1-9 describe a place called The Valley of Ben Hinnom. To this day it is still remembered as one of the most infamous places on earth. The Imagery The Valley of Ben Hinnom (Son of Hinnom, perhaps the […]
THE lost parables of Jesus have been found. Everyone can rejoice at this great discovery! Take a moment to look in your Bible at Luke chapter 15 and you too can benefit from what others have discovered – a group of three lost parables. However, the parables are not lost in the sense that they […]
Mankind stands in constant need of being reminded – of the way things ought to be; of the way life ought to be lived. Never in our lifetime has the need to be reminded been more obvious. It seems that on every level of society we have forgotten the basics of responsibility, behavior and morality. […]
Jesus points out in Luke 14:28 that a wise king will ascertain the strength of his enemy before going to war. Someone wisely stated “a problem well defined is half solved.” That is why we need to be like the men described in 1 Chronicles 12:32. The general context describes the throngs of warriors that […]
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