The Bible is an amazing resource.  We understand that it is the word of God.  The Bible tells us about God and His characteristics, about His mighty works, about His dealing with mankind, about His righteousness and holiness, about His love for mankind and His plan of salvation, about His plan for what will happen […]

Jesus tells us what is required to be His disciple. Matthew 16:24-25 “Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.  For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake […]

Are you sometimes a worrier?  Maybe you can’t sleep because of the problems you are thinking about.  Maybe you have stomach problems or headaches or pains in your chest because you are stressed by your problems.  Maybe you don’t know how you are going to pay all your bills.  Maybe you worry about your children, […]

Matthew 8:23-27 “Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, ‘Lord, save us! We are perishing!’ But He said to […]

As Christians, we are given the Spirit of God to live within us.  Romans 8:9 “But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.”  I believe that all true Christians […]

God, through Samuel, commanded King Saul to destroy the Amalekite people. 1 Samuel 15:3; 13-15; 19-23 “Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.” Saul attacked the Amalekites and destroyed […]

We have the story of Stephen, one of the chosen seven, in Acts 6:8-7:1 “And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and signs among the people. Then there arose some from what is called the Synagogue of the Freedmen (Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and those from Cilicia and Asia), disputing with Stephen. And they […]

Joseph had interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh concerning the years of plenty and the years of famine in Egypt.  Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of gathering the grain during the years of plenty.  Genesis 41:48-49 “So he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid […]

The Israelites were slaves in Egypt.  God had sent Moses to Pharaoh to free the Israelites and bring them out of Egypt.  God had brought plague after plague upon the Egyptians to convince them to release the children of Israel, but so far, Pharaoh had not let them go.  Exodus 11:1 “And the Lord said […]

Every one of us is a sinner.  That means that we deserve death before a holy, righteous God.  The wages of sin is death.  Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” While we deserve death based upon what we have […]