In the years of teaching others, one problem often has confronted those who are being taught. Some have deep roots in the places where they are worshiping and the decision to leave that behind is often not one that is easily made. They now look at the Bible so differently, for what they now know is right is so strange from what…

Failure to partake of the Lord’s Supper properly can put you to sleep. Not literally, but still the Bible describes this truth in Paul’s first letter to Corinth. The church in that pagan city had copied the pagan festival, and Paul described the results as one eating “his own supper” (11:20-21). He then gives detailed instructions about how Jesus said we should…

They had been slaves in Egypt, and their work involved taking mud and straw and producing bricks for the Egyptians. However, after they crossed the Red Sea the task before many of them changed. God gave a precise description of the tabernacle and its furnishing, and none of them had the ability to take the wood, the gold, the fabrics and create…

We all share something in common and that is each one of us has a past, a present and a future in our lives. The Bible can help us to deal with these three aspects of living and understand how they fit in the lives we seek to live for Him.  We must learn how to balance all of these in our…

This Sunday I will partake of the Lord’s Supper for the 3,819th time. I vividly remember the first time I sat at His table and meditated on all that Jesus had done for me. I have never tired of that time of meditation, and communion is even more moving now than it was that first time. There are some things that we…

When we think of cleanliness, we think of removing dirt from our bodies, clothes, dishes or our houses, but the Jews used the word far differently. God spoke often to them using this word and almost without exception it applied to being ceremonially unclean. This concept can be seen so clearly in the book of Leviticus where He uses the word “clean”…

What were the first words ever literally given by God that are part of the Bible? You might immediately answer, “The first words of the Bible are ‘In the beginning…,’” but you would be wrong. Before Moses ever wrote Genesis, our God gave the first written words at Mount Sinai. These words were spoken by God and even written by the hand…

Isaiah is truly the Messianic prophet because he gives so many detailed descriptions of the nature of the Christ and the work He would do. Most individuals know the words of Isaiah chapter 53, where we read of the One on whom our iniquity would be laid. We know of that lamb and sheep lead to the slaughter or to be sheared…