Lord, liar or lunatic? You decide but understand the evidence is abundant that He is Lord. Consider John 8:58 where Jesus claims to be the "I AM" of Exodus 3:14. The Jews understood what He meant when He said, "Before Abraham was I am." The next verse tells us they picked up stones to stone Him. As you contemplate Christmas consider the God Man, the Lord Jesus Christ and examine His claims. No one could do what He did or say what He said unless He was God. Repent and turn to Him today and be forgiven of all your sin.
All of us experience trouble. From the terms that James uses in chapter one, verses 2-3, the trouble that we experience cannot be determined beforehand, avoided, or determined to their degree. But we can be sure of this, they are "tests!"...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Our small group that meets twice a month has been going through the book "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan. He begins chapter 5 "Of all the chapters in this book, this one was the hardest to write. I do not wish for my words to come across as...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Isn't it amazing who some people will follow? No matter how they were treated by that person. Some follow others purely for selfish reasons, others simply out of amazement. But when is it is right not to follow someone? Let me be more specific....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Compel them to come in."--Luke 14:23.I feel in such a haste to go out and obey this commandment this morning, by compelling those to come in who are now tarrying in the highways and hedges, that I cannot wait for an introduction, but must at once...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The Roman historian Tacitus said, ‘Besides being put to death, [Christians] were made to serve as objects of amusement; they were clad in the hides of beasts and torn to death by dogs; others were crucified, others set on fire to serve to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In his book The Soul Winner, Charles Haddon Spurgeon says, "The soul-winner must be a master of the art of prayer. You cannot bring souls to God if you do not go to God yourself. You must get your battle-axe, and your weapons of war, from the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A.W. Pink says, "Whatever the attributes of God were before the universe was called into existence, they are precisely the same now, and will remain so forever. Necessarily so; for they are the very perfections, the essential qualities of His...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
We are considering the immutability of God. That means God never changes. In the next couple of post we will consider how God does not change. The first is God's life does not change.He Has Always BeenIn Psalm 93:2, the psalmist says, "Your throne...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In our last study together on the doctrine of God, we looked at the existence and nature of God. In the existence of God we said that it is assumed in the Scriptures. William Evans, in his book Great Doctrines of the Bible, says, "It does not seem...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
