In the absence of biblical leadership, unqualified men and women will take whatever avenue they can, regardless of the consequences, and fill those positions.
What is the Closest Star in Your Life?
We all have something or someone in our lives we are closest to. We see life from a perspective relative to what or who that is. Jesus, God’s Son, is meant to be the closest Star in our lives. Is He who you are drawing near?
The Lord’s Supper Teaches
What are you proclaiming in your attitude with which you take the bread? What are you teaching others by the gravity with which you drink the cup?
Absolute Power
Any philosophy that rejects God as the source of how to measure what is right is reliant upon consensus or control to rule.
What if Your Prayer is Answered in the Next Verse?
I feel the deep, aching weight of betrayal when I think of Absalom’s attempt to overtake the kingdom of his father, David. How must it have felt to be forced to flee the city he ruled because the plot his child had been working for years came to fruition? Did he forsake God? No. Did […]
No Partiality
The beauty of no partiality is that every person has the same ability and responsibility to
follow the commandments of God.
Please God
You might do the same thing for two different people and get opposite responses. If we worry about pleasing people, we will never have true peace, direction, or security. Aim to please God above all, and you will prove the righteousness of His ways above all else (Romans 12:1, 2; II Timothy 2:15).
Greater Than Heaven?
“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:
God was manifested in the flesh,
Justified in the Spirit,
Seen by angels,
Preached among the Gentiles,
Believed on in the world,
Received up in glory”
(1 Tim 3:16).
How Would I Be Remembered?
Paul mentions many people by name in his writings. Some are good, and some are bad. If we were alive when Paul was writing, which would we be?
Stop Conflict Before It Starts?
If we watch our mouths like we should, we won’t have as much time to be watching everyone else. That will stop a lot of problems before they start.