Do you “go to church”?  Do you have a “church home”?  Do you have a church that you would call “my church”?  If you do, there are some vital matters that every “church goer” needs to consider. When one picks up the Bible and reads through the New Testament, a careful Bible student will find a very precise plan and pattern for…

“‘Your words have been arrogant against Me,’ says the LORD. ‘Yet you say, “What have we spoken against You?” You have said, “It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept His charge, and that we have walked in mourning before the LORD of hosts?”’” (Mal. 3:13-14). It is a definite fact that we are obligated…

He was a young missionary just beginning the work where he would serve the Lord for the next forty years. He had grown up in a small rural town and the “world” was the changing all around him. There was simply no way he could envision what lay ahead for him. Now he sat in an amazing aircraft capable of navigating over…

The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that man’s salvation from sin is “through faith” (Eph. 2:8), “being justified by faith” (Rom. 5:1).  Unfortunately, certain denominations and individuals have grabbed that foundational truth and have twisted it to teach that man is saved “by faith alone.”  That “destructive heresy” (cf. 2 Pet. 2:1) has confused many Bible readers and has cost many…

You might have seen it. You may even remember it. The early 90’s Tombstone pizza commercials. They all center around one man about to be executed in various ways. The executioner asks him, “What do you want on your tombstone?” He replies, “Pepperoni and cheese.” While the intent is to get you thinking about their morbidly branded pizza, it does get one…

Sometimes we mistakenly think of the magnitude of sins in a wrong way. We talk of “little” sins as being those which really do not “count” because they seem so innocent when compared to major blunders which only the most ungodly do. The Catholic Church even has the same view of sins which are characterized as venial and mortal sins. When one…

One of the more challenging verses in Scripture to apply to one’s life is in Philippian 4:4, “Rejoice in the Lord always.”  Many a Christian has wondered how this is possible.  Yes, we are commanded to “rejoice in the Lord” in Philippians 3:1, but 4:4 adds the word “always.”  Later in the chapter Paul would report that he “rejoiced in the Lord…

I have received a lot of advice from many different sources. I have found that I go back to those sources of good and great advice—those who I feel have guided me well in life, love and my pursuit of perfection in Christ. But, what if one of those sources said, “Here is one thing I do”? I, personally, would get ready…