Baptism is one of those topics that seems like it should be simple, but there are so many different ideas regarding it and so many different practices of it that one can easily get confused trying to figure out what he actually needs to know. Is there a way to simplify this topic? Is there a way to strip away all of…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 117)
Two words that should never go together are “nobody ever.” Both words are superlatives, stating absolute extremes. Has just one person ever done this? “No! Nobody!” Maybe it happened just once? “No! Not ever!” Starting a sentence with “Nobody ever” may intend to draw a strong conclusion, but it actually creates doubt and draws the conclusion into question. Some have been known…
Have you listened to or read any news reports lately and had the thought, “They’ve left their senses!”? Have you heard someone on the TV or radio talk about the Bible and had the thought, “They’ve left their senses!”? The Bible says that is exactly what has happened! Paul warned his friend, Timothy, about those who “spread” a false message, “strayed concerning…
The book of Acts begins by telling the reader what Jesus did for the forty days that He was on the earth between His resurrection and His ascension. It simply says that He with His apostles, “to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things…
Has someone ever borrowed your car? Suppose that you had a brand-new car, which you just drove home from the dealer, and it only had 10 miles on it. Now imagine that a friend came over and you let him borrow it. What would you think (and how would you like it?) if your friend returned the car and it had paint…
Out of envy and hate, Joseph’s brother “conspired against him to kill him…and cast him into a pit” (Gen. 37:20). Then they planned to say, “Some wild beast has devoured him” (37:20). Although they did not kill him or say those actual words, after selling him to the Ishmaelites, they took his tunic, dipped it in the blood of a goat, brought…
First Corinthians 5:12 draws a contrast between those “who are outside” and those “who are inside.” What is Paul talking about? He is contrasting “people of this world” (5:10) with one who is “a brother” in the family of God (5:11). “Insiders” (if we may use that word accommodatively) are those who are “inside” Christ (wherein is salvation, 2 Tim. 2:10) and…
R-E-S-P-O-N-S-I-B-I-L-I-T-Y is a four-letter word today. Well, not really, but it sure seems that way sometimes. Our society is coddling certain segments of people or special interest groups and guarding them from being responsible for anything that they do. So, if some people mess up, they would never assume (or have to assume) responsibility for it. In another way, some parents are…