Time Cannot

“Time heals all wounds” is a proverb that suggests that with the passing of time the hurts that we experience will diminish and eventually be healed.  We find some truth in the saying when we consider our own experiences in the loss of a loved one; the pangs of that loss decrease with the passing … [Read more…]

Prejudice, Reason, and Pride

“Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?  For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.  … [Read more…]

Where Liberalism Has Gone

“Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by … [Read more…]

Sincerity And Truth

The Bible tells us of the necessity of walking in both sincerity and in truth. Sincerity is the quality of being free from pretense, deceit, or hypocrisy.  Truth proceeds from God, and as Jesus prayed to His Father in heaven, “thy word is truth” (John 17:17). Some of Joshua’s parting words to Israel were, “Now … [Read more…]

Bible Ears

How are you ears?  Our ears need check-ups from time to time. The Bible speaks of uncircumcised ears:  “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you” (Acts 7:51).  These are ears that resist the truth.  A person with such ears can become … [Read more…]

Believe Unto the Saving of the Soul

“But recall the former days in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings: partly while you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while you became companions of those who were so treated; for you had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the … [Read more…]

Stop Trying to Excuse Sin

1 Samuel 13:1-15 The Philistines had gathered together in Michmash to fight with Israel with thirty thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and people “as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude” (13:5).  The men of Israel there saw that they were in danger and hid themselves, and some even fled across the Jordan.  … [Read more…]

Faith Acts

“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Heb. 11:6). Pleasing faith expresses itself in action.  “By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which … [Read more…]