There is so much happening in our nation that it is difficult to keep up with it all. One very troublesome trend over the last several years has been the high unemployment and the extreme difficulty that many have in finding a job. My heart goes out to those who want to work and are persistently looking for work but are unable…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 210)
There is a feeble argument often attempted to make a significant difference between an elder’s qualification to be “not given to wine” (1 Tim. 3:3) and a deacon’s qualification to be “not given to much wine” (1 Tim. 3:8). Can a deacon drink a little, while an elder is to totally abstain? Here’s the real question: if the Bible condemns something in…
Have you ever heard someone say about another person (who had withdrawn himself and was spending all of his time alone and separated from his family, friends and church), “Well, he’s just trying to find himself”? May I suggest to you that if someone is trying to “find himself,” and has undertaken that endeavor while separating himself from the church, that the…
The book of Ephesians paints such a beautiful picture of the church and one worth our perusal, especially in light of the FAMILY/Youth emphasis at PBL. By the mercy of God, He saved each one of us in the church. God “made us alive together with Christ…and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ”…
It’s a tough job being a parent! The hours: 168 hours a week (and that’s only because there aren’t 169 hours or more available in a week). The pay: below minimum wage, way below minimum wage; in fact, you have pay to be a parent (instead of getting paid). Hazards: well, there are too many to list (and we don’t want to…
Some parents’ approach to parenting is to wait (even longingly wait) for their children to make a mistake, so that they can pounce on them, tell them what they did wrong and seek to correct it. Some couples’ approach to marriage is to wait (even longingly wait) for their spouse to make a mistake, so that the mistake-free spouse can pounce on…
For some books of the Bible, we need to read through the entire book to surmise the main theme or purpose of the writing of the book. For other books, the writer states explicitly his purpose in writing. The book of First Timothy is of this latter category. Paul discloses the following: “I write so that one will know how to conduct…
In a day of disposable marriages and empty vows, how are there couples who have been married for 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 years? Our godless society and liberal media might be able to come up with some snarky answer to that question, but they would never unearth the truth (if they tried) that holds these marriages together amidst a dearth of…