I’ve had this list of resolutions on my desk all year. Dan copied this from Neal Pollard at the beginning of the year, and issued this challenge with his article in January—choose just one of them in 2008 and make it a reality! So, how did you do in 2008? Did you meet the challenge? Can you do more in 2009? Look…

It is amazing how rapidly time passes. This final bulletin of the year reminds us of the new year lying before us with all the challenges it will bring. None of us know what awaits us, yet because of God we can face it optimistically. We need to be reminded that we cannot live in the past. Life is an ever changing…

Words are just words.  Right?  How is it that some words can be classified as “acceptable” to speak and other words are “unacceptable” to speak?  How can most words in the English language be normal, ordinary words but a select few be pulled out and deemed “vulgar” or “profane”?  If God does not specify which words are appropriate and which ones are…

Heaven had so much to offer the Jewish nation. The prophets of God were in its midst and delivered the precious words of the Bible to them (Rom. 3:1) for a thousand years. Even more than this was the fact that God longed to dwell among them, but they rejected Him in His holy temple. Finally, Jesus came and vividly illustrated all…

We often sing songs about following the Master. Who has not sung “Where He Leads Me I Will Follow” or “Footprints of Jesus”? Sometimes I imagine how wonderful it would have been to follow Him up the mountain and listen to that sermon delivered there. Or think of how thrilling it would have been to have followed Him to the shores of…

Knowing the influence that friends have on each other, the Lord advises that “the righteous should choose his friends carefully” (Prov. 12:26).  Friends, even as the Bible uses the word, are not mere acquaintances.  True friends build a relationship which can surpass even that which they experienced in their own home.  Solomon stated that “there is a friend who sticks closer than…

I suspect that almost every American believes that in the deep recesses of the Oval Office is a top secret folder prepared by the outgoing president to be given to the newly elected one. No one knows about it but we suspect it exists and is marked “For President’s Eyes Only.” In it is found secret information about all the plots from…

As we conclude this series on this most fundamental and important of all subjects—salvation—let us turn our attention fully to the Word of God.  While some have claimed over the years that once you’re saved, you’re always saved, what does Scripture teach?  Can a Christian, once saved by the grace of God, live in such a way as to forfeit his salvation?…