This is the time of year when you do more shopping (perhaps) than any other time of year. Maybe you can only get your husband’s favorite fishing lures at this one specialty shop. Maybe your wife has a favorite chocolate that can only be purchased at a local shop. Maybe your friend has a favorite coffee that you have to drive past…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 257)
God chose to reveal His will to mankind by means of prophets. Hebrews 1:1 says, “God…at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets…” We know some of the prophets by name (like Moses, Isaiah, Peter, etc.), and some we do not. Prophets were God’s chosen messengers to proclaim His saving message (both in…
Can you imagine being on the mountain when Jesus “was transfigured” and “His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. And…Moses and Elijah appeared…talking with Him…and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud” (Matt. 17:1-5)? What an experience that must have been for Peter, James and John – the only mortals on that mountain…
Jesus’ half-brother, Jude, wrote a short but stirring letter, “exhorting [his readers] to contend earnestly for the faith” (Jude 3). Every word in the Bible is significant, even the small words that we might sometimes treat as insignificant (like “the”). Suppose Jude had written to “contend earnestly for faith” – would that have made a difference? The Muslim terrorists who killed 3,000…
The actions of Paul and Silas at the end of Acts 16 have always amazed me. For casting a demon out of a certain slave girl, Paul and Silas were beaten with many stripes (with rods) and were thrown into the inner prison of that Philippian jail, with their feet fastened in the stocks (16:22-24). They must have been in extreme pain,…
Jonah fled in the opposite direction from God’s clear instructions to “go to Nineveh” (1:2). He foolishly exclaimed in the last chapter, “For I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repentest thee of the evil” (4:2, ASV). Jonah knew that God’s abundant lovingkindness would lead Him to turn (i.e., repent) from…
I want you to read John chapter 8 and see how Jesus repeatedly used, during this interchange, the words “word(s)” and “truth.” Look at these verses. “As He spoke these words, many believed in Him. Then Jesus said…‘If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.’…you seek…
How would you finish this prediction – “the earth will be filled with…”? How do you think the Bible completed such a prediction? Note this is a prediction, not a statement of fact. The fact is “the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord” (Psa. 33:5), His “mercy” (Psa. 119:64) and “His glory” (Isa. 6:3). But what is the prediction? …