We usually see what we are looking for. We tend to get focused on a single matter and fail to see all that is happening around us. Determined to purchase a special item in a store often makes us bypass items of even greater value. We see what we are focused on. This is what happened in John chapter four when the…

Last week, we pointed out that God does not need editors to clarify what He meant when He said what He said. Tragically, we live in a time when individuals think they have the right to read what the Bible says or to hear someone show what the Bible says and then say, “Well, I just do not believe that is the…

When Moses descended from Mount Sinai, he had two tablets of stone with words written on the front and the back of the tablets. We know those words as the Ten Commandments. They were placed in a golden container called the Ark of the Covenant. Nearly six hundred years later, Solomon brought that container into the beautiful temple he had built. There…

“I don’t enjoy coming to church.” How often do people use these words or others like them to express their feelings? It may be that others have not used these words, but they have felt them. Think about the implication of these words. If I really am bored in worship, then how on earth could I enjoy being in heaven? I have…

The Bible clearly affirms that there are some things in the Bible which are difficult to understand. Peter obviously had read some of the epistles of Paul and described the wisdom which had been given to Paul. He then adds, “In all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to…

It was forty-four years ago that I walked away from the grave of my father, and two years later, I stood at that same gravesite when my mother’s body was laid to rest beside him. I doubt there has been a single day that has passed since then that I have not thought of them. I remember the emotions which flooded my…

When the news from the palace came that Prince William and Kate Middleton were expecting, the world became obsessed with the birth of the future king. As the day approached, millions of people were aware of the birth and the arrival of the new prince was widely discussed. The media gathered at Saint Mary’s Hospital, and crowds around Buckingham Palace became increasing…

What words would you use to sum up the law of Moses? If your answer dealt with sacrifices and commandments, your understanding has been influenced more by the Jewish leaders of the first century than by how God intended for it to be. Jesus showed the true nature of the law when He said, “On these two commandments hang all the Law…