Some of our young men have recently or are soon headed into the military, so it seems needful to address some thoughts directly to them for this time in their lives. Is it possible that these thoughts also apply to each of us? Remember your Commander! You will have different instructors and officers, but there is only One Commander that really matters. …
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 247)
For years, bumper stickers have graced (and sometimes disgraced) the backs of many cars. Then, ingenuity brought us the magnetic versions that we could use, move and remove with ease. What do a person’s bumper stickers say about the person? Church members will sometimes put stickers or plates on their cars with various messages. Many PBL members have plates and magnets that…
Abraham left his home and dwelt “in a foreign country, dwelling in tents” (Heb. 11:9). He was willing to do this because God had made him a promise (see the word “promise” twice in that verse). What helped him to be so content? The next verse tells us, “For he waited…” Waited? The same Greek word is used in John 5 of…
First and foremost, the focus and purpose of singing in worship is to praise and glorify God! Let us never forget that! Still, as is usually the case with God’s requisites, the obedience blesses the obedient. Singing affects the singer, when the heart is close (Matt. 15:8), when the heart is attuned (Eph. 5:19), when the heart understands what it is singing…
There is not a whole lot of positive assessment of complaining in Scripture (or in day-to-day living either). Israel’s complaining during the days of Moses takes up more than 40% of the word’s usage in all of Scripture. The Pharisees repeatedly complained against Jesus. God instructs Christians to “do all things without complaining” (Phil. 2:14). With the weight of Scripture against complaining,…
Is it just me or are people in general growing more and more impatient and less and less willing to wait? Perhaps that makes even more challenging the need for God’s children to “wait on the Lord.” The blessings of doing so are too innumerable to imagine, but by reading passages which speak of waiting on the Lord, we can find abundant…
The worship of God is something that we must take very seriously. To approach the very presence of God demands that we do such with proper thoughts, proper motives, proper methods, proper actions and proper demeanor. Is there a place for “hilarity”? There is an interesting Greek word found in 2 Corinthians 9, and it is the only time it is used…
A favorite Bible verse of many Christians is Isaiah 40:31, which portrays the beauty of “those who wait on the Lord.” But, what does it mean to “wait on the Lord”? How does a person do that? By reading passages in Scripture which speak of waiting on the Lord, we should be able to find how God defines this marvelous concept and…