Just how many Bibles have been printed since Gutenberg invented the printing press? The number is staggering. Over 5,000,000,000 Bibles have been printed. To appreciate this number, consider that the world’s population is fast approaching   7,800,000,000. So, could I buy your Bible? The stipulation in the purchase would be that you would never again have a Bible—it would in no way ever…

While the Bible clearly affirms that it will completely supply us in every aspect of our work for the Lord (2 Tim. 3:16-17), some do not believe it. While the Bible clearly affirms that it contains everything which pertains to life and godliness (2 Pet. 1:3), some do not believe it. Consider the following. Several years ago in a Bible study with…

So has this COVID-19 impacted your life so much that it has weakened your faith and negatively impacted your spirituality? Before you get too discouraged, think about the lives of the saints who lived before you and what they had to face. COVID-19 has impacted us for about six months, but what they faced often lasted years, if not a lifetime. If…

Two weeks ago, I wrote the first article on the increasing need for preachers to be developed in the church. At that time, I had no plans to write much about this, but the more I have thought about it, the more I see that these matters need to be discussed. You can have a modern “Hannah or Lois or Eunice,” but…

Last week we discussed the great need there is in the church for developing leaders—elders, deacons and preachers. The truth is that we are not training enough men to preach and many congregations are suffering because of a growing lack of leadership. Our homes no longer are places where these leaders were developed in the past. Young men are not being challenged…

There are hundreds of churches around the world which are struggling because of a lack of leadership. Every year there are preachers who decide to no longer preach and many others who, because of failing health or advanced age, no longer stand as God’s messengers. Add to this the fact that death takes many from us. The truth is that the number…

We may have assumed too much about what we commonly call the Patriarchal Dispensation. While it is true that Abraham and the sons of Jacob are called patriarchs (Heb 7:4; Acts 7:8-9), God also calls David, who lived over 500 years after the Patriarchal Dispensation ended, a patriarch (Acts 2:29). I was told as a child that during that ancient age God…