How many times have you heard someone say it? Or, how many times have you said it yourself? Some tragedy happens, and as fellow Christians are working through it together, someone says, “I don’t know how folks in the world make it through times like this without the church!” Isn’t that the truth!? Only Christians share a deep (and almost inexplicable) connection with each…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by David Sproule (Page 89)
Have you had enough? Are you “about up to here” with all that is going on? Would you say that your discouragement level has reached new highs in recent days? What can you do? Staying positive is a hard thing to do…even for a Christian. Some non-Christians look at Christians and expect perfect peace and sunniness all the time, but such is not always the case. However,…
Can you imagine being an Israelite in the days of Moses and being an eyewitness to some of the most incredible acts of God in the history of mankind? What would that have done for your faith? After witnessing the plagues that He brought upon Egypt and after experiencing the miraculous events of the exodus, would you feel like a spiritual giant,…
Why did God put the stories of Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Joshua and David in the Bible? We might think that they are there to honor and indelibly publicize those Bible heroes for what they did. That could be, but it’s not the prime reason. We might think that they were there for children to have bedtime stories. That could be, but it’s not the prime reason.…
These are frustrating times! Our lives have been turned inside out and upside down, in some respects. People on television and the internet seem bent on stirring us up to fear inside and angry hatred on the outside. Perhaps you have noticed a change in your attitude. Are you less joyful? Less optimistic? Less pleasant to be around? Are you more irritable? More easily frustrated? More susceptible to lose your temper…
Some Bible students find interest in realizing that Jesus’ feet were anointed with oil and wiped with a woman’s hair on two different occasions. Sometimes these two events get confused as one event, because of the similarities between them, but they are definitely two distinct times in the life of Jesus. Let’s consider them. The first anointing took place in Luke 7:36-50. …
When you are provided with an “excused absence,” how do you respond? If someone is given an excused absence from school or work, they might rejoice and wish for more. But, if you were given an “excused absence” from assembling with the church to worship God, how would you respond? Would you respond in the same way as receiving an excused absence from school or…
We are living in a time when so many things are being cancelled—sporting events, church events, political events, school events, etc. Is it possible that we have allowed the cancelling of so much around us to cause us to cancel our daily actions as a Christian? Is there any reason that our conduct as a child of God should have taken a break during…