church of Christ at Cloud 9

It is natural for you to compare yourself to other people.  You are younger than they are, or you are shorter than they are, or they are richer than you are.  Some comparisons are natural and innocent enough.  But other comparisons are not good, such as that you are more righteous than they are, or […]

I wish to encourage you through some scriptural descriptions of your Savior and mine – Jesus Christ, the Son of God.  To begin, we have a description of Him in prophesy.  Isaiah 9:6-7a “For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder.  And […]

When you are baptized for the remission of your sins, you are promised the gift of the Holy Spirit as stated in the words of Peter in Acts 2:38-39 “Then Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and […]

God is known as our Father in heaven.  Each of us had a father on earth.  It is said that each of us initially views the nature of our heavenly Father as being like our earthly father.  If your father was missing, distant or did not spend much time with you, then you might see […]

The Apostle Paul, and those with him, prayed the following prayer for the Colossians.  Colossians 1:9-12 “For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;  that […]

I encourage you to use this moment to analyze how you spend your time.  Sure, there is time for sleeping and eating.  There will be time you spend working, whether that is working for pay or just working to accomplish things that need to be done.  But these surely do not account for all of […]

God has given you the gift of salvation.  Ephesians 2:4-9 “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit […]

Are you discontent?  There may be at least two situations where you may be discontent.  The first is when you don’t have everything you need – you are in a bad situation.  Perhaps you don’t have enough to eat or you are in pain that stays with you or you are experiencing some other bad […]

In the New Testament we are told that the church in Corinth had many problems.  One of these problems was that they were divided.  One reason for their divisions was that they were following men.  1 Corinthians 1:12-13a “Now I say this, that each of you says, ‘I am of Paul,’ or ‘I am of […]

Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy — meditate on these things.”  To meditate on these things is to make them […]