church of Christ at Cloud 9

Have you ever hated someone?  Or is there someone you now hate?  To hate is to intensely dislike or have malicious feelings toward someone.  It may be because of what he has done or said to you or perhaps done to someone else.  You may wish that you could pay him back or that something […]

Each day, you and I make hundreds of decisions – what we say, what we do, what we do in preparation for the future, how we react to problems we experience, how we react to people we interact with, and so forth.  Some decisions are small while others are large.  Some decisions are easy to […]

Consider the story about Jesus recorded in Matthew 19:16-26 “Now behold, one came and said to Him, ‘Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?’ So He said to him, ‘Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want […]

I wish I could say that I never sin, but that would not be true.  The apostle John wrote in 1 John 1:8 “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”  Sin is literally a “missing of the mark.”  If the mark is what pleases […]

I have trials and everyone I know has trials.  So I’m pretty confident that you have trials too.  Here is what James wrote about trials.  James 1:2-4 “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.  But let patience have its perfect work, […]

Have you ever stumbled and fallen?  Most likely you have.  When I was a child and in a hurry, I would sometimes stub my toe against a rock or the root of a tree and fall on my face.  When we are old, it is a serious concern that we will stumble over something in […]

It seems that many evil deeds are done at nighttime when it is dark.  This is likely true because people doing evil deeds do not want to be seen.  1 Thessalonians 5:5-8 “You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.  Therefore let us […]

When we look around us, we see change in many things.  We see change in the environment and the weather with global warming.  We see change in technology with computers and cell phones being very common and very powerful.  We see changes in our governments and in those that are in power.  We see change […]

What if your brother in Christ sins against you?  Maybe he says something unloving.  Maybe he says something about you that isn’t true.  Maybe he destroys your property.  Maybe he physically assaults you.  Maybe he cheats you.  The possible list could go on and on.  This shouldn’t happened, but sometimes it does happen. You could […]

When you were born as a baby, you were small in size, you lacked strength and you were ignorant of most things in life.  Praise God that you didn’t remain a small baby, but, according to God’s wonderful design, you grew in size and strength and in knowledge and wisdom.  If you had not grown, […]