“Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15). When we read this we begin thinking, “What does this love include?” There are certainly things in this world that I love. How could God create a beautiful planet and tell us not to…

Things are so crazy right now that no one is talking about the fact that the Department of Defense (DOD) has admitted to the existence of unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The DOD prefers to call them unexplained aerial phenomena, but that will not change the public opinion that they are UFOs. The release of this information was said to have been done…

In uncertain situations, we hold on to what we can know. Firm knowledge is always preferred over maybe or what if. We have not been left without certainties. In the letter of First John he used the word “know” twenty-nine times in five chapters. The only book with more is his account of the gospel with seventy-five. God, through John, wants us…

We continue our study taken from Proverbs chapter six. In verses sixteen through nineteen, Solomon lists seven things that the Lord hates. If the opposite is true, then we can discern seven things that the Lord loves. We looked at the first four last week. We will now finish the last three. In fifth place of the things that God hates, Solomon…

Solomon makes a list in Proverbs chapter six of seven things that the Lord hates. We often think of the list of seven deadly sins, but that is not a biblical list. That list is attributed to a fourth century monk. It should be stated that God hates all sins and no sin is greater than another. All sins will separate us…

There have been a lot of executive orders being handed down by our government lately. Those in power have been telling those subject to that power what they need to do to be safer as a community. What would it look like if the Bible was summed up as an executive order? Whereas, in the beginning, the Lord, created the universe, the…

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair” (Charles Dickens,…

“The next day as we were being violently storm-tossed, they began to jettison the cargo; and on the third day they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands. Since neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm was assailing us, from then on all hope of our being saved was gradually abandoned” (Acts 27:18-20).  They were…