For most of us, the word addiction has negative connotations. It brings to mind the excessive use of drugs or alcohol, or some type of anti-social behavior. But a family mentioned in the New Testament, the household of Stephanus, was addicted (1 Cor. 16:15-16). The KJV says that they were addicted to good works, while […]
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 […]
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 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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On the night before He went to the cross, the Lord invited His disciples to join Him in celebrating the Passover feast. He had arranged all the details for this memorable evening in the privacy of a borrowed room, aglow with warm lamplight. At the very outset of the meal, the Lord revealed the yearning […]
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 […]
The place was Jerusalem. The time was the first celebration of Pentecost after the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, a mere seven to ten days after He returned to the Father (Acts 1:9-11). At this time and place, a remarkable event occurred: the church was born, the same church about which the Lord had spoken […]
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). […]
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 […]