Jesus is the only person who ever lived who had any right to brag about Himself. But, where do you read Him doing that? You don’t! In fact, just the opposite! The “mind” of Jesus was to do “nothing…through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind” to “esteem others better than himself” (Phil. 2:3-5). And those verses in Philippians are telling us to do the…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule
A man was dealing with a very cold winter and no heat in his home, so he decided to go to the store and buy a bag of charcoal. When he got home, he wanted to spread the heat out in his home, so he placed one briquette in his bathroom, one in his bedroom, one…
What if…? What if for every negative comment you made you had to in turn make one positive comment? How would this affect you? Would you reduce the number of negative comments you make? What if every time you complained about your boss, complained about your work, complained about your spouse, complained about your kids, complained about the…
Sometimes a preacher’s mind will work in mysterious ways. This is one of those times. In November 1986, the Georgia Satellites band released a single called “Keep Your Hands to Yourself.” The lyrics were about a girl who firmly refused to get physically intimate with her boyfriend until they were married. In the song, she kept saying to him, “Don’t give me…
How do you measure your faithfulness? How do you measure your Christian walk? While some want to argue that works are not necessary to one’s relationship with God, Scripture teaches otherwise (Eph. 2:10; Jas. 1:21-25; 2:14-26; 1 Cor. 15:58). In fact, the Bible tells us, “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves” (2 Cor.…
The God of heaven is perfect and does not need anything (Acts 17:25)—the entire world is His, and everything in it (Psa. 50:12). So, He did not need man to complete Himself, yet He still created us. To God, you are worth it! God knew that you and I and all of His created beings were going to…
The Bible begins with God speaking and with God speaking in very clear terms. The first chapter of the Bible presents God speaking eleven times. “God said…God said…God said…God said…God said…God said…God blessed them, saying…God said…God said…God said to them…God said” (Gen. 1:3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29). Of the 31 verses in that first chapter, God…
The word “persuaded” is used multiple times in the New Testament. Its Greek origin (peitho) means “to cause to come to a particular point of view or course of action,” such as when Agrippa said to Paul, “You almost persuade me to become a Christian” (Acts 26:28). Have you fully yielded yourself, having been fully persuaded to the truth of Christ and His word?…