As Paul begins his letter to the church at Rome, he uses words which clearly focus on the resurrection of Jesus. He said that Jesus was “…declared to be the Son of God with power…by the resurrection from the dead” (1:4). In his letter to the church at Philippi, he spoke of his great desire to “…know Him and the power of…

In my life I have preached over 10,000 sermons, and sometimes I may lose sight of the purpose of preaching. We are told to preach the word, to teach and use those precious moments to convince, rebuke and exhort with a longsuffering heart (2 Tim. 4:2). God describes the focus of preaching as being edification, exhortation and comfort (1 Cor. 14:3). The…

It is not true that all who claim to be working for the Lord are godly. Because the Holy Spirit guided the apostles and prophets, we have the totality of the very spiritual truth in the Bible (John 16:13; 2 Tim. 3:16-17). It is the measuring rod to be used to identify false teachers. The Bible warns against the presence of false…

The change in how students are disciplined in school is vastly different from what it used to be. In those days, there was the “board of education” (the teacher’s heavy paddle) and proper behavior was demanded. I remember another way of discipling at the West Huntsville Grammar School. A disobedient student was made to go to the corner of the room and…

“Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully…Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving…For the Lord is the great God…Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker” (Psa. 95:1-6). These words describe the heart of the man whose heart was like the heart of God. David fully understood worship…

One simple way to view life is to think of how it is a journey up a mountain trail. There are many times when on this journey there are forks in the path ahead of us, and we must choose which one to take, knowing that one of them leads to the place you have heard so much about. You want to…

As Paul comes to the end his first letter to the saints in Corinth he admonishes them, “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord” (15:58). The first word in this verse calls attention to all that had just been said. He had devoted…

I have no problem with the poetic nature of the song about a “land of cloudless day” as it contrasts the dark “clouds” of trouble that seemingly surround us on this ball of clay. However, there is another aspect of the clouds emphasized in the Bible and how they are so often associated with the presence of God and His glory. Take…