church of Christ at Cloud 9

Picture in your mind that you are wearing a white shirt or blouse with a pocket in front.  You put a pen in that pocket.  But the pen leaks and produces a dark stain on the front of the shirt or blouse.  Picture that you also ate some kind of juicy fruit and the juice […]

As a Christian, you are to put off the sins of the flesh and put on righteous attributes.  Colossians 3:12-13 “Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ […]

Whenever both parents die, they usually leave an inheritance to their children.  If the parents are poor, they leave very little to their children; if the parents are rich, the inheritance is large.  You and I are children of God and the whole universe belongs to Him.  Just imagine the inheritance that God can give […]

When Jesus was nailed to the cross, he also nailed the Law of Moses to the cross.  Colossians 2:13-14 “And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, […]

As much as you love your brother (or sister) in Christ, there are times when he may say or do things that are harmful to you.  How are you to deal with these situations?  Do you just ignore the problem and the offense?  Do you tell him how bad he is, how you have no […]

In the book of Jonah, we have the story of the prophet Jonah.   God told him to go to the city of Nineveh to prophesy to the people, but instead Jonah tried to run away from God.  He boarded a boat to flee from God, but a great storm arose because of him.  He convinced […]

What do you do when you find out that a brother or sister in Christ is involved in a sin?  Maybe they cheated someone or they are into sexual immorality or they are caught in a lie or they stole something or you found them drunk.  It happens.  Do you look the other way and […]

When the patriarch Abraham was ninety-nine years old, God made a contract, a covenant with him.  These are the terms of the covenant.  Genesis 17:6-8 “I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.  And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and […]

For the Lord’s Supper, we use unleavened bread.  What is leaven?  Leaven is any of several agents used in doughs and batters that cause gas bubbles to form inside the dough to lighten and soften it.  A typical leaven is baker’s yeast.  When baker’s yeast is added to dough, the yeast grows, feeds on the […]

Have you ever been discouraged?  Maybe you are discouraged right now.  You can be discouraged when negative events happen in your life that make you wonder if it is worth it to keep going on.  It seems far easier and less painful to give up and quit rather than to continue and struggle onward through […]