The believer who seeks to obey God is going to have enemies. When our Lord was ministering on earth, He had enemies. No matter where Paul and the other apostles traveled, enemies opposed their work. Jesus warned His disciples that their worst enemies might be those of their own households....
What can we do practically to oppose the enemy and maintain the purity and unity of the church? For one thing, we must know the Word of God and have the courage to defend it. Every local church ought to be a Bible institute, and every Christian ought to be...
When Jesus watched His frustrated disciples as they tried to solve the problem of feeding the 5,000 (John 6), He taught them a lesson in faith and surrender. Here are the steps we must take in solving life’s problems: Start with what you have. Andrew found a lad who had...
Jesus Christ is always the preeminent example for the believer to follow, whether in service, suffering, or sacrifice. Like Jesus Christ, the Macedonian Christians gave themselves to God and to others. If we give ourselves to God, we will have little problem giving our substance to God. If we give...
Live expectantly today. This does not mean putting on a robe and sitting atop a mountain. But it does mean living in light of Christ’s return, realizing that our works will be judged and that our opportunities for service on earth will end. It means to live “with eternity’s values...
“Make love, not war!” may have been a popular slogan, but it is not always feasible. Doctors must make war against disease and death; sanitary engineers must war against filth and pollution; legislators must war against injustice and crime. And they all fight because of something they love! The Apostle...
No one can escape coming into the world as a baby, because that is the only way to get here! But it is tragic when a baby fails to mature. No matter how much parents and grandparents love to hold and cuddle a baby, it is their great desire that...
She had gone down in history as “America’s Greatest Miser.” When she died in 1916, “Hetty” Green left an estate valued at over $100 million. She had eaten cold oatmeal because it cost to heat it; her son had suffered a leg amputation because she spent so long looking for...
Our longtime friends cannot understand the change in our lives, and they want us to return to the same “excess of riot” that we used to enjoy. But the will of God is so much better! If we do the will of God, we will invest “the rest of our...
Each of us as God’s workmen will be either approved or ashamed. The word approved means “one who has been tested and found acceptable.” The word was once used to describe metals which had passed tests for quality. Each trial we go through forces us to study the Word to...