Being a father is never easy. It is much more than simply getting up, going to work, and bringing home a paycheck to make sure that you keep a roof over your head and food on the table. Being a father also means living with integrity; being a man of open honor and honesty. Some of the greatest lessons I learned from my father came not from what he said, but what he did. Our children watch our every step to see how we live our lives and whether or not our walk matches our talk. The legacy we leave is seen in how they eventually walk themselves.
Twice do we find Jesus speaking of someone’s faith as being “great”. It is significant that both times it was in reference to someone who was not a descendant of…
Did God not know that Abraham feared Him? Certainly not. God is omniscient, all knowing, thus, He knew exactly what Abraham would do. This test was not for God’s sake,…
As we have seen over the last three weeks Matthew and Luke both record a sermon which Jesus preached: a. Matthew’s is referred to as the Sermon on the Mount…
If we are promised that we will know Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in heaven, does it not also make sense that we will know our loved ones?
Like many of you I have been blessed down through the years to have a number of godly people in my life. From my youth up there have been a…
Christians are urged to cultivate certain virtues which establishes greater blessings. Understanding that God supplies everything needed to meet His demands, Peter charges Christians with living moral and ethical lives…
It is easy to love those who love us. As a matter of fact, it takes a pretty crusty individual not to love those who love him or her. In…
The Bible assures us that God will create a new earth on which we shall live to God’s praise in glorified, resurrected bodies. On that new earth, we hope to…
The Sermon on the Plain — or as Luke describes it “a level place” (v. 17). Unlike Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) which records nine beatitudes, Luke only…
“How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered!” (Psalm 32:1, NASB95) At the time David wrote these words, the amount of a debt which you might…