
Jesus’s View of Leadership
Becoming a great leader by the method of Jesus completely contradicts what the world usually assumes about leadership. In a fascinating incident recorded by Mark, Jesus teaches three essential qualities…

Becoming a great leader by the method of Jesus completely contradicts what the world usually assumes about leadership. In a fascinating incident recorded by Mark, Jesus teaches three essential qualities…

Paul stated that Jesus came to this earth when conditions were right. “But when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born…

Jesus came to seek and to save the lost, (Luke 19:10). The purpose of our Christian lives may be viewed as an extension of Christ’s presence and influence in this…

Man was meant to work! The first man, Adam, was not simply placed in a utopian garden with nothing to do. He was immediately given a job, (Gen. 2:15). The…

Older people can be very irritating. While driving, for example, I have noticed that they are slower on the road. This especially when you are behind one of them, and…

Can We Know We Are Saved? by Robert C. Veil, Jr. Years ago I had a series of discussions with an elder in the Lord’s church who took the position…

I’d like to make a challenge which specifically applies to certain members of our congregation. You know who you are! But this challenge generally applies to us all. I hope…

Christians are the most generous, giving people on earth. That’s because they recognize that they themselves have been given so much. Without the grace of God, the gift of his…

Just as bad habits are hard to break, so are good ones! If you are in the habit of doing good, you are not easily distracted or prevented from your…

Habits are hard to break, that’s why they call them habits. Habitual behavior becomes second nature, and is often done without thinking. So, to break the habit requires extreme concentration…

The valuable quality of “awareness” involves knowledge or perception. It carries the idea of being attentive and understanding that something is happening, or that some situation exists. Christians need to…

Did I thank the Lord today for the good that came my way? Restful darkness, sacred night; for the blessed morning light. For the chance to greet anew, streaming Sun…

I hope you will indulge me as I share a few personal thoughts, to include some spiritual applications which may be helpful to all of us. I spent a day…

One of the big reasons we have such difficulty in reaching the lost is the fact that there are so many misunderstandings about what the church is. These misunderstandings have…

I remember hearing about a Sunday morning Bible class being conducted in an old, country church building many years ago. The teacher had been methodically moving through the text of…

Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even…

I was recently reminded of the simple but profound fact that “people are someplace.” People live and function within a particular context, and we would do well to consider this…

There are many benefits to a Christian education. In addition to the opportunity to learn from teachers who share a godly worldview, and a deep respect for the Bible and…