You have heard it said that there is strength in numbers. A brief history of the church at Philippi challenges this old axiom. Philippi was Paul and Silas’s first stop on the European continent. Paul’s usual practice when coming to a new place was to locate the synagogue and begin preaching Jesus as the Christ Read more
Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the crash of Flight 93 in Pennsylvania. Life is so different now. Before September 11, 2001, we didn’t talk much about terrorism. We had not heard of Osama Bin Laden or Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Airport security was a breeze. Read more
I was recently reading a passage from 2 Corinthians that read: Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. But their minds were hardened. Read more
1 Corinthians 12 is, to me, one of the most difficult passages in the New Testament to explain. For one, Paul makes mention of several cultural issues that were specific to the period of time that he was living and operating in. On the other hand, he also makes mention of several topics that are Read more
On July 4, 1952, a young woman named Florence Chadwick waded into the water off Catalina Island with the intention of swimming the channel to the California coast. Long-distance swimming was not new to her; she had been the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. The water was numbing cold that Read more
School will soon be back in session, and this means Christian young people are facing a number of difficult challenges. Here’s a little back to school advice to help them stay on the straight and narrow: Remember your Creator. The wisest man that ever lived writes, “Remember also your Creator in the days of your Read more
While studying 1 Corinthians this week, I came across a verse that I have read many times in my life, but always seemed to overlook it. Paul, in his opening discourse to the Corinthian Christians, states: “…and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit Read more
Our gospel meeting with Nathan Segars is just one week away. Why should you commit to being at every service? Come for the church. What if I were to tell you that you could make our meeting great just by filling a seat on a pew in every service? It’s true! A filled auditorium encourages Read more
Prayer lists and remembering the sick in our petitions to the Lord are time-honored traditions in the church. Not only that, these are biblical practices. James writes, Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of Read more
There is a story about a father who was filled with pride after his wife called him a “model husband.” That is, he was filled with pride—until he looked in the dictionary and discovered that a “model” is defined as “a small imitation of the real thing.” Being called a “model father” may be a Read more
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