While the translations vary in their ease to read and comprehend, God wrote the Bible to make it easy to read for the average person, even a child (which has made it the best-selling book decade after decade). Reading is one thing. The “doing” takes things to an entirely new level. Consider some Bible instructions, from an “Easy-to-Read” version, that some folks…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 235)
We read some expressions in Scripture so often (especially in particular parts of the New Testament) that we might skip right over them and not consider their real emphasis and import. One example of this is the frequency with which we come across the word “greet” in the New Testament. As we have a “greeting” part of our letters today, it was…
After 13 years of driving to the same home day-after-day, it’s funny how our brains just operate on auto-pilot. There are habits, choices and directions that are just instinctively made, without much (if any) thought being given to each individual step. After moving to a different home last month, all of a sudden, my “auto-pilot” is messed up; I’ve had to start…
There is something very different and very real and very effectual about the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. There were others who were raised from the dead (such as Jairus’ daughter, Lazarus, etc.), but the Greek tense of the verb used in those cases is different than the Greek tense that Paul used for Jesus’ resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15. In…
It doesn’t take much for “things” to start getting to you! If you watch the news, it can get you down in a hurry. If you listen to reports about the economy and the national debt, it can wear on you. If you listen, even, to certain brethren in the church, you will begin to think that life is horrible and people…
Black Friday is all about saving! Getting out there early, hitting the right places, finding the best deals! Some folks look forward to this day with great anticipation and preparation! Think about that for a moment. Black Friday. Do you know when the “blackest” of all Fridays occurred? Saving. Do you know the greatest saving that ever took place on a “Black…
One of the most challenging verses and Christian responsibilities in all Scripture is found in James 1:19, where God instructs us to be “slow to anger.” Scripture does not say to never, ever be angry (cf. Eph. 4:26), but God clearly directs us to be slow to get there. In other verses, we read of the Lord’s expectations for us to exercise…
When Peter rebuked Jesus for suggesting that He was going to suffer and be killed, Jesus sternly admonished Peter saying, “You are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men” (Matt. 16:21-23). In other words, Jesus said, “You’re setting your mind in the wrong place. You’re not setting your mind on God’s thoughts; you’re setting it on man’s…