What you get out of life is really up to you. What approach will you take? Faith or unbelief? Moses called this place where God gave the miracle of water out of the rock " Meribah" which means "chiding'. Why was it not called "House of waters" (Beth-beer) or House of God's provision ( Beth-el-jireh)? [...]
Matthew 25:14-30, by application, gives the account of the reactions of church members to their Lord in response to His giving to them gifts. These gifts could be anything from money to extra time or talents. Each was given as an extra for the purpose of investing.It was not for personal wealth, but for the [...]
"... from them that walk uprightly" Psalm 84:11 "Uprightly" means walking with wisdom and courage that truth will give to you. Guilt from sin as well as a fainting heart from difficulties in life can move us from a life of faith and obedience easily.To spend time in prayer and in reading the Word daily [...]
This instruction by the Holy Spirit through Paul does not stand as an option to the true believer. Compared with 1Corinthians 15:33, we see that we either separate or become corrupted by the world's communication and life styles. How often I find my thinking and life plans steering toward the temporal goals of pleasure and [...]
We are told in Roman 11 that the church is actually a wild branch grafted into the natural root of the planned kingdom of God. There we are warned that if we do not keep the faith, we shall also feel the shame of being cast aside as did Israel when she rejected her Messiah."The [...]
The word commend means “to commit to the trust of” another. Here Jesus is ready to die and leaves us a lesson so that in the hour of death, the terrors of the unknown do not take us down. His relationship to God is passed to us as children of the heavenly Father and He [...]
Check it out. Here is what he says http://blogs.answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2013/11/19/dont-be-taken-in-by-the-noah-movies-promotion/ Certainly Christians will need to be ready to talk about Noah, the Flood, and topics of sin, judgment and salvation with those who do see this quite anti-biblical movie. But to do this, I encourage you to use the AiG website to ensure you have lots [...]
There are only two times in Jesus life that it says that "He marveled". In Matthew 8:10, He was pleasantly surprised at the faith of the military captain.This Roman centurion believed in His power in a way that He had not seen in Israel. The second time He "marveled" was in Mark 6:6 where He [...]
In Hebrews 12:3, we are encouraged to think about the sufferings of Christ in order to solace ourselves when trials arise in our lives.If we interpret hardships to be God's perfecting work,that means it has a purpose and I can rejoice.That is a work of faith ,but you must initiate the work of God by [...]
The context seems to be at the end of the 7-year Tribulation Period to come after the Rapture of the church In Ezekiel 38, there is a call to all nations to gather to help solve some sort of crisis in the Middle East. Upon arriving, verse 10 says that an evil thought comes into [...]