Paul compares the Christian life to running a race. This means continuous movement, and constantly advancing and going forward. "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the [...]
Billions of people fill the earth, every individual having his own unique heart, and there are no two alike. When we ponder what sad statement that the word of God makes about the heart of man: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9), one may well [...]
A pleading widow; an unrighteous judge. Why did Jesus choose such a story to tell us about faith and about God's love? There are some incredible lessons that we need to understand from this story. Many of us do not understand what “faith” really is and how we need to implement it in our daily [...]
Many kings, queens, and emperors have passed through the ages. There have been mighty ones, weak ones, great ones, good ones, cruel ones, etc. Each had his/her peculiarities or achievements, by which they were, or are, remembered in history. But none of them would, nor can, measure up their name with Solomon, the king of [...]
Abraham and Lot “And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.” Genesis 12:5 Abraham was one [...]
"The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.” Deuteronomy 28:22 Microbes are organisms too small for the eye to see and are found everywhere [...]
Throughout history there have been those who have taught about the horrors of hell, playing on people's fears in an attempt to bring them to worship God. What kind of god do they portray by this kind of preaching? I remember as I grew up, my Grandmother told me about a place called purgatory and [...]
There I stand with climbing shoes on and a rope tied to my climbing harness, an 18 meter high wall in front of me. I look up to the top and realize how challenging the climbing route actually is, but I can also clearly see my goal—there is no turning back now. I turn my [...]
But Ruth replied, Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live I will live. Your people will be my people and your God will be my God. Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me severely [...]
We sing in our gospel hymn, “Work for the night is coming, When man works no more.” Today we still have day light, but it is darkening, and soon everything will be too late. The work of salvation that we planned to do but did not finish, for this neglect we will be eternally lost. [...]