So-called “modern-day healers” should be embarrassed.  While many of them claim to be exercising “power given to them by God,” their feeble efforts are anything but of divine origin.  Consider the following statements regarding the effective working of the miracles of Jesus: From the book of Mark only:  “immediately the fever left her” (1:31); “immediately the leprosy left him” (1:42); “Immediately he…

“Stupid” is in the category of “bad words” at our house.  We don’t say it (except when Daddy said it in Soldiers of Christ one night about the children of Israel…oops!), and we don’t like it when others say it.  But, take note, that God called a certain group of people “stupid.” In Proverbs 12:1, God says that “whoever loves discipline loves…

Paul looked at his life with only one goal in mind—bearing fruit.  And he recognized the direct correlation between bearing fruit and labor—fruit will not come without labor; the intensity level, dedication level and patience level of the labor will have an obvious bearing on the fruit level. Consider your labor for the Lord.  Then, consider the fruit that has resulted.  Is…

Can you imagine being one of the prophets of Baal in 1 Kings 18?  You just spent an entire day calling out to Baal to send fire down on your bull.  When that “didn’t work,” you leaped about the altar you made, cried aloud, cut yourself until blood gushed out and continued to call out to Baal all day.  You did this…

How much higher are the heavens than the earth?  Through the research of astronomers, we can know the measurements between celestial bodies and the earth.  While it is hard for us to fathom millions of miles and light years of time, we can begin to understand what God meant when He said, “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So…

The expression “as one man” is found seven times in the New King James Version—all of them in the Old Testament.  Notice how this expression is used:  “the congregation gathered together as one man before the Lord…all the people arose as one man…all the men of Israel were united together as one man” (Judges 20:1, 8, 11); “the people gathered together as…

The word “holy” is a key word in God’s dealings with His people.  God is holy, thus everything associated with God is and must be holy.  When God gave the pattern in Exodus 28 for the garments of the high priest, one piece of his “uniform” was a turban.  On the front (not the back or the side) of the turban, they…

Unfortunately the doctrine and practice of infant baptism has widely influenced the minds and thinking of many people.  In fact, that false doctrine (based upon John Calvin’s manmade doctrine of the total depravity of newborns) influenced the mis-“translation” (not actually a translation!) of Psalm 51:5 in the New International Version.  Consider the following. One truth:  The practice of infant baptism shows that…