When the Lord said, “Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life” (Prov. 4:23), He obviously is not talking about that large muscle in our chests. The Bible uses the word “heart” over 800 times and almost always, if not actually always, refers to that inner part of our being. When the Lord discussed the…

The devil lies!  You know that, right?  You cannot believe or trust anything that the devil would have you to believe or trust!  What he tries to convince you to do is completely contrary to whatever God wants you to do.  Would you like some evidence? In Genesis 2:17, God said, “…of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you…

The writer of Hebrews could so easily see the dangers faced by those Jewish Christians. The nation that killed God’s Son turned its wrath on the church almost from the day it began. Jesus had warned them about the trials that were coming. Obviously, they persecuted those Gentiles who had become followers of Jesus, but their persecution was even more fierce on…

In a variety of ways, certain skeptics of the Bible attempt to take some of the simplest teachings of the Bible and complicate them to mean something they do not, and they seek to use their so-called “scholarship” to convince individuals that their conclusions are sound.  This is true of a variety of Bible teachings, but consider for a moment the days…

Paul, in his address to the Areopagus, spoke of the need for all men to repent and that a day has been appointed for judgment; those statements came with the assurance or proof in the resurrection of the Christ (Acts 17:30-31). We overlook the gift of having an assurance from God. We want assurances when it comes to things we buy or…

From the time that Israel arrived at Mount Sinai, God started making promises to them that He repeated for the next 40 years.  Many of those promises centered around the land that was promised to Abraham and how God was going to give it to Israel.  Regarding the vile, sinful inhabitants of the land, God time after time promised Israel, “I will…drive…

There is a plea from the agents of change to “keep an open mind” about new ideas. Any decenter of change is heralded as narrow-minded and limited in their ability to grasp what they would espouse as truth. Would it surprise you that Jesus would be listed among those to be narrow-minded? Jesus is narrow-minded about the following topics. He was narrow-minded…

For the last several years I have tried to improve my worship in song by paying special attention to the words of the songs. While the musical notes are important and participating in four-part harmony singing is so rewarding, the focus in the Bible is on the relationship of my soul and my words. Singing is described as “…singing with grace in…