Reading the word of God from 1 Peter 1:1-9. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ to the sojourners scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the …
We open the Word of God to Judges 6, and we're going to spend some time talking about Gideon. This is a part of our study of the will of God, and of course Gideon introduces us to a practice that many Christians use, the practice of putting out a flea. Now don't be too critical of Gideon. He had …
We read from Isaiah 43, and then from 2 Corinthians 1, and you will see the connection in these two passages in the presence of God with his people when they go through trouble. Isaiah 43, But now, thus saith the Lord, who created thee, O Jacob, and he who formed thee, O Israel, fear not, for I …
What would you do if three rattlesnakes were loose somewhere in your house? You would probably do what that family in California did when they found three rattlesnakes in their house. They moved to a motel, and they got a team of men to search through the house and find the snakes. An acquaintance …
1 John 3:1-10, gives us another insight into the promise of Christmas. Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God. Therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the children of God. And it doth not …
I am reading the word of God from 1 John 4:7-21. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God. And everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, that God sent his only begotten Son …
I read the word of God from 1 John 3:7. Little children, let no man deceive you. He that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that practices sin is of the devil, for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy …
Romans 5:1-11, and then Romans 8:28-30. Romans 5:1, Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only so, but we glory in …
I am reading the word of God from Hebrews 12:1-11. Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author …
Daniel 3. We're so prone to look at these as Sunday school stories, and they are this. I'm glad that children can be excited by them, but there are some deeper meanings for those of us who are a bit older in the Lord and in years. Now, the Babylonians have taken over and Jerusalem is destroyed, the …