If you desire to be more like Christ in your day-to-day life, I invite you on a journey through Romans 12. This chapter is considered as one of the most important chapters in all of the Bible that addresses how a life transformed by Christ should look like. For the…
A young girl whose father was a chronic grumbler said to her mother, “I know what everybody in this family likes. Johnny likes hamburgers, Janie likes ice cream, Willie likes bananas, and Mommy likes chicken.” The father, irked because he hadn’t been included in the list, asked, “What about me?…
Sunday, November 4, 2018, is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. Hebrews 13:3 commands us to pray for our brothers and sisters undergoing persecution for following Christ, “Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated…
Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish convert to Christianity, said that Jesus’s genealogy, as given in Matthew 1:1-17, was one of the proofs that persuaded him that Jesus is the Messiah. Coming from his experience as a US Marine who had to be accurate when it came to shooting at targets from…
This is the second and final post on the series titled “Hell—It’s Realities and Implications.” In PART 1, we saw the following 4 realities of hell: 1. Hell is a real place 2. Hell is a place of eternal conscious torment 3. Hell is a place where the utterly wicked…
Hell is not a popular subject—not even in the church. However, it is a critical subject because the Bible says much about hell. The issue is not if a topic makes us comfortable or uncomfortable. It’s about hard truths that we need to think about constantly—for our own eternal benefit!…
One of the characteristics of a life that is honoring and pleasing to the Lord is a life that is continually “growing in the knowledge of God” [Col 1:10]. And since God is knowable only through his attributes, we can grow in the knowledge of God only if we study his…
Thankfulness often seems to be a lost habit, as illustrated through this real-life incident. Edward Spencer was a seminary student in Evanston, Illinois. He was also part of a life-saving squad. When a ship sunk near the shore of Lake Michigan near Evanston, Edward repeatedly went into the icy cold…
When personalized license plates were introduced in Illinois, the Department of Motor Vehicles received about 1,000 requests for the number “1.” The state official whose job it was to approve the requests said, “I am not about to assign it to someone and disappoint 999 people.” His solution—he assigned the number to himself! Nowhere…
This is the 4th and final post in the series “The Sabbath and the Lord’s Day.” The first post dealt with the question, “Are Christians Required To Keep The Sabbath?” The second one addressed the question, “Are Christians Required To Keep The Lord’s Day?” The third post dealt with “Common…
