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Posts by David Sproule (Page 68)

We’ve been trying to reach you about your extended warranty

The robocalls are persistent. They come nearly every day and usually multiple times per day. “We have been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.” It seems like these people are more concerned about our cars than we are. Of course, it’s all a scam. But, their efforts certainly provoke a thought. Is it possible that God has been trying to reach you about your…

Using the Word “Tithe” in the Way the Bible Uses It

Many religious groups today urge (and some require) members to give their “tithe” to the church.  How does the Bible use that word and how does it apply to us? The word “tithe” literally means “ten, tenth.”  We first read about the “tithe” during the Patriarchal Age of the Old Testament (Gen. 14:20; 28:22).  Then, in the Mosaic Age, Jews were required…

It’s about your love

If one were to make a list of all possible topics that a preacher could discuss and divided that list into “What folks want to hear about” and “What folks don’t want to hear about,” at the very top of the “don’t want to hear about” list would be “money”—and more specifically, a Christian’s responsibility to give to the Lord. However, that topic…

Yield to error just for a moment?

The early church struggled with false teachers who “secretly” tried to bring their doctrines among the brethren and bring faithful Christians “into bondage” to their own laws (Gal. 2:2-4). Paul stated unequivocally, “…to whom we did not yield submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel might continue with you” (2:5). The faithful Christians were not willing to yield any ground…

The Work of the Church

The Lord’s church was planned before the world was ever created (Eph. 3:10-11) and then Christ came and purchased and established His church in the first century (Acts 20:28).  Man certainly has a lot of ideas about the church—what it is, what its purpose is, what its work should be, etc.  In many instances, churches have become major businesses or even country…

The hedge needs to be taller and wider!

Isn’t interesting how all of the new social movements try to force their way into the classrooms? Where have the advocates of gender identity and transgenderism focused their attention? Where have the proponents stirring up racial hatred and warfare concentrated their efforts? It’s the same place that Darwinian evolutionists converged decades ago—inside the classrooms of young children, who are the most impressionable of all beings. If…

An angel of light?

Sometimes we have ideas in our heads that do not find support inside the Word of God. But, they sound good. We like the way they look. We could be easily persuaded (and sometimes are) to yield ourselves to them. Let us heed this warning from the inspired apostle, “Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light” (2 Cor. 11:14). Think about that. Satan can make…

God Is Not to Blame

When something bad happens, our natural tendency is to look for someone to blame.  Think about children.  When something breaks while the children are playing or someone gets hurt or they get caught doing something wrong, they always seem to look for someone else to blame.  “Billy did it!  Darla made me do it!  It wasn’t my fault!”  That inclination seems to…