Have you ever stopped to think about it? Why do you believe what you believe? When it comes to political and social matters, why do you believe what you believe? When it comes to moral and ethical matters, why do you believe what you believe? When it comes to religious and spiritual matters, why do you believe what you believe? So much…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 264)
There is an interesting and stark contrast drawn in 1 Thessalonians 5 between the children of God and the children of the world. Children of God “are not in darkness,” but are “sons of light and sons of the day…not of the night nor of darkness” (5:4-5). Children of the world are “in darkness” and are “of the night” (5:4-5). Jesus said,…
In times of grief, from whence cometh our comfort? In times of despair, from whence cometh our comfort? In times of sadness, from whence cometh our comfort? Paul wrote that “the God of…comfort” comforts “through the…comfort of the Scriptures” (Rom. 15:4-5). Paul is not the only one to teach this. The great treatise exalting God’s Word, found in Psalm 119, makes repeated…
As you have read this series of articles on withdrawing fellowship and considered this practice, you may be among those who view this action as cruel and unloving. “Deliver to Satan? Put away? Not eat with such?” Is it unfair? Is it heartless? Here’s a good rule of thumb: when something in the Bible bothers you or seems nonsensical to you in…
A frequent flyer died in his sleep one night and somehow found himself standing in line at the pearly gate. When he reached the front of the line, he was asked only one question, “What did you do with your soul?” A little perplexed by such an obvious answer, the frequent flyer responded, “I took my shoes off back there like I…
There is a verse that we probably know and maybe even can quote, but we must ask ourselves how we’re doing in obeying it. Reflect slowly and soberly on these words from James 1:27— “Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.” Notice…
When homes were in areas where springs were scarce and summers tended to be long and dry, cisterns were commonly used in Bible times to collect rain water and store water for a family’s use. But, cisterns did not last forever (eventually drying out and breaking), and instead of being used for water storage, broken cisterns were sometimes used as make-shift prison…
Let us continue to prayerfully search the Scriptures on this subject of withdrawing fellowship and allow the Word of God to do the teaching and to answer our questions. Who gave the church the right to do this? Some have asked, “Who gave the elders the right to judge someone else? Who gave you authority to withdraw your fellowship from another Christian?”…