On occasion, we read something in the Bible which is so amazing that if it were not written in the very Word of God, we would not believe it. In Jeremiah 2:2, we see God recalling the early days of Israel’s love for Himself as we read, “I remember the devotion of your youth.” What […]
The Noahic Covenant and the Post-Flood World Noah’s life straddles the pre- and post-flood worlds. Its duration spanned an epoch of violence which was so brutal that it merited the severest divine judgment since Adam’s fall. Yet the darkest times offer opportunities for the light to shine more brightly (Jn. 1:5). The twin attributes of […]
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Shortly before He went to the cross, the Lord Jesus spent time with His disciples in what has come to be known as the Upper Room Ministry, recorded in John 13-17. Several disciples asked questions of the Lord, but the one that drew forth the longest and most detailed answer focused on a difficult subject […]
Perhaps you’ve heard the familiar quotation, “The family that prays together, stays together.” While there is no biblical statement along this line, we have both scriptural direction and example as to the importance of prayer in the assembly. In the Acts of the Apostles, we read, “These all continued with one accord in prayer” (1:14). […]
You would think the answer to this question is simple: Nothing, right? I hear this all the time, “We have the website the way it is because it doesn’t cost us anything.” What they are really saying is that they don’t have to pay any money to have the website active on the web. There […]
What a strange winter this has been! The winter of 2011-2012 will go down as one of the most unpredictable in years. In the American Northeast, we had a major snowstorm a couple of days before Halloween. Around six inches fell in New York, New Jersey, and parts of Pennsylvania. Close to a foot fell […]
There is a challenge to every aspect of divine truth, and we see it in 1 Chronicles 29. David is coming to the end of his life and preparing the way for his son Solomon to succeed him to the throne of Israel. Although it had been David’s exercise to build the temple, a habitation […]
Did anyone notice the carpenter, his weathered hands holding two birds, or the young wife beside him, gently carrying her child through the Temple Mount crowd? Only forty days had passed (Lev. 12:2, 4) since that momentous night when the Ancient of Days entered time and the Light of the knowledge of the glory of […]
The of the outstanding aspects of the gospel is its simplicity. To understand that salvation is simply a matter of acknowledging our need of Christ and looking to Him through faith alone to remove the penalty of sin and to make us citizens of Heaven is nothing short of amazing. Well can we sing the […]