The toughest job on the entire planet is being a parent! “Train up a child in the way he should go” (Prov. 22:6). What parent hasn’t felt the overwhelming challenge of that command? “Bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord” (Eph. 6:4). Easier said than done! So, a Christian parent dedicates himself/herself to two decades of pointing those…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 224)
I am guessing that you’ve never heard anyone say that (or anything like it). “I’m gonna pass out if I don’t get to worship God soon!” Yep, it sounds a little “over-the-top” or “dramatic,” doesn’t it? Nobody would ever verbalize anything like that, let alone even think it! Well, a conclusion such as that would be…wrong! The heart of a worshiper…
There is a word used frequently of Paul’s preaching in the book of Acts and it is translated variously: Paul “reasoned with them from the Scriptures” (Acts 17:2; cf. 17:17; 18:4, 19; 19:8-9; 24:25); “disputing” (24:12); “preached” or “discoursed” or “talked with them” (20:7, 9). The Greek word fundamentally meant “to reason, to argue, to dispute, to revolve in the mind, to…
The revelation this past week that a man named Ariel Castro had kidnapped, sexually assaulted and held captive three women in his Cleveland home for more than a decade has just sickened me. I can hardly listen to or read the reports about this vile man and his vile acts. My heart aches and is crushed for these young women and all…
The account of the lynch stoning of Stephen (the first martyr for the cause of Christ) has many lessons for us to glean, but the posture of Jesus, when Stephen sees Him at the right hand of God, is of particular interest. Everywhere else in Scripture, it depicts Jesus (after His ascension and exaltation) as “sitting at the right hand of God”…
Abortion providers use neutral, non-specific and even uncommon terms to explain to their “clients” the nature of the entity in the womb and the procedures necessary to remove that unwanted matter. They use terms like “fetus,” “specimen,” “pregnancy termination,” “intrauterine demise,” “do the termination inside and then remove the pregnancy.” And, yet, the true nature of life in the womb is hard,…
Christians, beware! You are being targeted for extermination! Or, at the very least, for suppression! Your faith is not important! Your convictions are silly and narrow-minded! Your voice is not wanted! Your silence and your acquiescence are expected and being demanded! So, what will you do? It is hard to fathom “Christian persecution” coming to America, but it is here and it…
The various generations covering the last 100 years or so have all been given their own names: the “Lost Generation” (1883-1900), the “Greatest (or G.I.) Generation” (1901-1924), the “Silent (or Lucky Few) Generation” (1925-1945), the “Baby Boomers” (1946-1964), “Generation X” (1965-1980), “Generation Y” or the “Millennials” (1981-2000), “Generation Z” (2000-Present). Do these verses from Proverbs describe you or your generation? “There is…