How do you pay for something that you purchase today? Who do you pay? When do you pay? Where do you pay? The answer, I suppose, depends on what the product or service is and who is making the purchase. Consider how much variation there is in paying for something today. WHO do you pay? You might pay one person at a…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 6)
In the Star Wars saga, Anakin Skywalker struggled between two masters – his Jedi Master and his Sith Master, Emperor Palpatine. For a time, he tried to serve both the Dark Side and the Light Side (i.e., the Force). Ultimately, he yielded to Darth Sidious, being deceived that it would save his wife, Padme. That proved to be his ruin. Obviously, this is fiction. But,…
Don’t you love new beginnings? Fresh starts? There is none GREATER than when one obeys the gospel and becomes a child of God. We often call the moment when someone is “baptized into Christ” (Gal. 3:27), “The GREATEST decision of his/her life,” because it is. When one dies to sin and is buried into His death, there is no event GREATER than being “raised” to “walk…
There are some Scriptures that clearly state, “No one has seen God at any time” (John 1:18; 1 John 4:12; cf. 1 Tim. 6:16 1 John 4:20). But there are other verses that indicate Moses and company “saw the God of Israel” (Ex. 24:10), Jacob saw “God face to face” (Gen. 32:30), and Moses spoke with God “face to face” (Num. 12:8). …
Sometimes, it appears, Christians seem to go through their days without doing a whole lot, in an active sense, for the Lord. There seems to be a mindset of something like this, “I’m a good Christian. I don’t do anything really bad. I’m a good person overall. That’s what it means for me to be a Christian.” But, is that what it means to be a…
Paul commended the Christians in Thessalonica, shortly after they had been converted to Christ. For what? He praised them for “how you turned to God from idols…” (1 Thess. 2:9). At one time, they had worshiped pieces of stone or wood, and maybe were even the ones who fashioned those pieces of stone or wood into some kind of image (Isa. 44:10). They were literally…
You know the trick. A magician fans a deck of cards out in your direction and bids you to, “Pick a card, any card.” There are so many choices. They basically all look the same, until you take one and look at the other side of it. While that card bears some similarities to others in the deck (maybe the same suit,…
Who are “the best of the best”? Commander Mike Metcalf, in Top Gun, told the pilots, “Gentlemen, you are the top 1% of all naval aviators – the elite, the best of the best.” Chief Zed, in Men in Black, told the recruits, “You’re all here because you’re the best of the best.” Of course, all of that is fiction. In the real world, who are…