Pornographic material is more prevalent and easily accessed today than it ever has been. With a mobile device, salacious images and videos can be viewed anywhere, at any time, by anyone so effortlessly that it makes it seem (to some) to be completely innocent and acceptable. However, just because Satan makes sin easy, seemingly common and widely available does not make it…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 203)
Peter describes heaven as an inheritance for children of God–an inheritance that is “incorruptible and undefiled and fades not away” (1 Pet. 1:4). Then, to affirm its absolute assurance, he tells us these three things about this promise. First, the inheritance is “reserved.” The inheritance isn’t going anywhere! It is being guarded, kept and preserved in heaven for God’s heirs. How certain…
Have you ever wondered why God gives us all the little details in some Bible stories? Why do we know that it was “a fresh jawbone of a donkey” that Samson used to kill 1,000 men? Why are we told that David used a sling and a smooth stone from the brook to bring down Goliath? Why does God tell us that…
Sometimes, in paintings of centuries past, artists would depict the apostles (and especially Jesus) as having a glowing circle around their head. Have you seen those pieces of art? If the apostles actually walked around with glowing circles about their heads, do you think they would have been easy to recognize and identify as a follower of Christ? But, you well know…
There are those tough choices that we face in life that are better made WITH God than WITHOUT God (i.e., praying for wisdom and guidance through the decision process). Then, there is a different type of choice that we face in life which involves the temptation to sin against God. This is not a matter of choosing between Option A and Option…
Every day we are faced with choices. Some of them are big; some of them are small. Many choices we face are not matters of right or wrong (choosing whether we give into sin or not), but they are life decisions that determine the course of our day, our year or even our life. Rather than make these choices on our own,…
The Lord’s church (globally and locally) could not function without the efforts of deacons, deacons’ wives, elders’ wives, volunteers, helpers and special servants! Read that again. It’s so true! I stand amazed on a daily basis of all that individuals do for the Lord and His church! What kind of individuals? Not the ones who “get paid to do it,” but the…
As equally as we are commanded to behold and consider the “goodness of God,” we are likewise directed to behold and consider the “severity of God.” “Severity” involves being strict or stern in judgment or requirement. An unbalanced view of God would be to focus solely on His severity; equally unbalanced would be to focus solely on His goodness. Balance requires both!…