I’ve had this list of resolutions on my desk all year. Dan copied this from Neal Pollard at the beginning of the year, and issued this challenge with his article in January—choose just one of them in 2008 and make it a reality! So, how did you do in 2008? Did you meet the challenge? Can you do more in 2009? Look…

Words are just words.  Right?  How is it that some words can be classified as “acceptable” to speak and other words are “unacceptable” to speak?  How can most words in the English language be normal, ordinary words but a select few be pulled out and deemed “vulgar” or “profane”?  If God does not specify which words are appropriate and which ones are…

Knowing the influence that friends have on each other, the Lord advises that “the righteous should choose his friends carefully” (Prov. 12:26).  Friends, even as the Bible uses the word, are not mere acquaintances.  True friends build a relationship which can surpass even that which they experienced in their own home.  Solomon stated that “there is a friend who sticks closer than…

As we conclude this series on this most fundamental and important of all subjects—salvation—let us turn our attention fully to the Word of God.  While some have claimed over the years that once you’re saved, you’re always saved, what does Scripture teach?  Can a Christian, once saved by the grace of God, live in such a way as to forfeit his salvation?…

What a fantastic lectureship!  There are many reasons to be thankful and excited about the lectureship that we just hosted at PBL, including the great speakers and the great lessons each attendee heard from the Word of God.  Specifically, I want to recognize that this lectureship was a great success because of the many members who worked in various capacities before and…

The greatest treasure to be obtained on this earth is the salvation from the horror of sin through the love, grace, mercy and blood of our Lord.  Can you imagine someone having the greatest treasure on this earth (greater than all the wealth of all the world) and then turning it loose?  It is not only possible for someone to do that…

God could have provided salvation to mankind in any way that He chose.  As all of us have separated ourselves from the Lord through sin, all of us are dying—dying to drink of the water of life.  Thus, when the water of life is offered to our thirsty, drought-stricken souls, who are we to reject it? God could have provided salvation unconditionally…

If you get into a conversation about salvation with two “religious” folks today, the likelihood is high that you will be talking to two individuals who believe, practice and teach two different things about this most fundamental of all subjects—salvation!  That fact is amazing, frightening and discouraging. Remarkably, some have taught that salvation is not available to all men, for God never…