Pleasing God, Making Disciples of Jesus Christ

New Testament

When The Lord Delays His Coming

MARK 6:45-52 – Immediately he made his disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. 46 And after he had taken leave of them, he went up on the mountain to pray. 47 And when evening came, the boat was out on the sea, and he was alone on the…

Heed The Warnings

1 CORINTHIANS 10:1-11 – For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock…

The Christian Life As God Intends

GALATIANS 6:2 – Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. THEME OF THE DAY. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE AS GOD INTENDS. Do we know how many “one another” passages are in the Bible? Fifty-nine. Yes, there is that many. I won’t list them all but the fact so many exist points us to one sure truth – Christianity is…

Busyness Produces Bad Theology

LUKE 10:38-42 – Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care…