You are making decisions in this part of your life that will have a lasting impact on the rest of your life!  If you wait to learn, know and implement these truths, then you may learn them too late.  Things that you are thinking, doing and planning right now will chart your course into adulthood.  So, I have something else that I…

Solomon said, “For everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven” (Ecc. 3:1). Have you ever considered, not just the time for every purpose, but the purpose itself? More specifically, have you ever considered the purpose for your existence? Have you given much thought to the question, “Why were you born?” The ancient Greek philosophers thought about the…

Sometimes men make a mistake when they come to the Bible and expect God to expressly prohibit actions which displease Him. The Mormons, who used water in the Lord’s Supper, say, “Where does the Bible say you cannot use water?” This approach to the Bible totally ignores the truth that when God expressly commands actions it disallows all other actions. Consider the…

God doesn’t make and give rules just to make and give rules!  Some people don’t understand that, but God gives us directions for our lives because He dearly loves us and because He deeply wants the very best for us!  Remember that as we look at some more things we need to know.  I have something else that I hope you will…

Being saved from our sins and being a Christian is flat-out awesome!  We’ve discussed some truths in these notes that can lead to saving knowledge, faith and obedience.  But, once a person is a Christian, what do they need to do to keep serving God acceptably?  That’s what I want to consider for the rest of these notes.  Now, I have something…

How exciting it must have been for Paul, Silas and Timothy when in a vision Paul heard the Macedonians say, “Come over to Macedonia and help us” (Acts 16:9). They immediately left Troas and landed in Europe and began their work. The reception was not what most would have expected for there was great opposition in all the cities of Macedonia where…

When Jesus arrived in Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples two questions. The first was, “Who do men say that I am?” The second one was, “Who do you say that I am?” Their answers to the first question attest to the amazing life Jesus had lived before the Jewish nation. They saw Him as being equal to Jeremiah, Elijah, other prophets…

All of the notes leading up to this one have been designed to fortify a foundation of fundamentals for your faith—they have been filled with lots of truths and facts for you to examine for yourself and believe.  This note will also be filled with truths and facts, but it also serves as a transition to lead to the applications that we…