One day we will each have to give an account for what God has given us to do. Let us be sure that we don’t take what God has given to us and bury it away, but use it in a way that honors the God who gave it to us. The following series of lessons, brought to us by Jeff Keele is a good reminder to put on the servant attitude and work to bring people to our Father. By living in an way that mimics His Son’s life we can be servants for Him.
Paul calls upon each of us to change the way we think: About ourselves, about one another, and about our gifts. If we make excuses for not using our gifts we are in danger of experiencing the same condemnation as the slave who received the one talent in Jesus’ parable (Matthew 25:14-30).
Do you remember something about which you have been enthusiastic? Perhaps, you were so excited that you couldn’t even sleep the night before. When Paul exhorts us to be “fervent in spirit,” he is utilizing an idiom from his day, it literally meant “to boil in the spirit.”
Do we serve the Lord with enthusiasm? Can others tell that we care for one another? If your answer is no, then I must ask you, what are you doing to change things?
One of the most famous lines for which Winston Churchill is often remembered comes from the speech which he made that day. “But for everyone, surely, what we have gone…
There are many things which we as parents and grandparents seek to teach our children and grandchildren. Those coming up behind us learn not only from what we verbally teach…
The Bible never indicates anything about Paul’s ministry to Aquila and Priscilla, only about their ministry to him. In three different cities over some sixteen years Paul depended upon them,…
Tonight, we come to God’s final address to Job. As we noticed last week in God’s first address to Job . . . a. He didn’t give Job answers to…
In the days of the apostle Paul such technology was not available. He and those with him had to travel from city to city. Our reading this morning was taken…
I don’t believe that any of us know how we would respond to God if we found ourselves in Job’s place. In one day, without warning, Job lost almost everything…
Have you ever stopped to consider how you and I remember people? Their relation to us or someone we know (i.e., another person’s mother or father, brother or sister, aunt…
In this lesson, we explore the powerful impact that God’s word has on our lives, based on James 1:22-24. Discover how being a "doer" of the word—not just a hearer—transforms…
Christmas was first celebrated in Rome in the year 354 A.D. Constantinople would follow 25 years later in 379 A.D. and then Antioch nine years after them in 388 A.D.…
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