The wisdom of the book of Proverbs is so practical and it just makes sense. One such nugget of truth states, “A man who has friends must himself be friendly” (Prov. 18:24). How true is that? Someone who is not “friendly” does not have many “friends”! Sometimes folks in the church will be upset because they don’t have many friends in the church. Can I ask…

Can you imagine anyone accusing God of lying, let alone “making God a liar”? That’s exactly what the apostle John claimed we can do.  “If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us” (1 John 1:10). The reason that making a claim that “we have not sinned” makes God “a liar” is because…

How much do you give to the Lord? I know! That’s a personal question! And it’s absolutely none of my business! Who would you say was the biggest giver in the Bible? Several suggestions could be made in answer to that question. One finalist on that list of the biggest givers would certainly be the brethren in Macedonia. Paul describes “the riches of their liberality,” in that they…

When you play a game, sometimes it can lead to a win and sometimes it can lead to a loss. There are two different possible outcomes. But, in the Bible, there is a choice that we can make that the Bible says “leads only” to one place, and it gives us a clear warning. Look at Psalm 37. It talks about God’s…

How often have elders of the Lord’s church been unfairly and unnecessarily targeted…by its own members? The elders are the easy target…when we don’t like an announcement that was made, when we don’t like a decision that has been made, when we think they are stuck in the past, when we think that they take too long to make a decision, when we…

The popular party game asks the question, “Would you rather?” For example, “Would you rather have smelly feet or stinky breath? Would you rather wake up in the morning as a bird or a dolphin?” And, you must choose one. You cannot say, “Neither.” So, let me ask you one: “Would you rather be rich or poor?” An interesting Bible text considers this choice. Agur the son of Jakeh…

A game that shows up at many parties today is called “Would You Rather?” The game presents the choice between two random things and asks, “Would you rather” do this or that? It’s designed to be fun, as folks make some wacky choices. The psalmist wasn’t playing a game when he made his “I’d rather” choice. When the psalmist considered the two very different paths…

The God that you read about in the Bible DOES NOT CHANGE (Mal. 3:6; Heb. 13:8)! He is the SAME God today as He was in Old Testament days and New Testament days. When the king of Syria sent his “great army” and “surrounded” God’s people (2 Kgs. 6:14), God was not off on vacation somewhere, nor was God too small to handle the…