The day before a trip is always filled with excitement and packing. We have learned over the years that it pays to make a list of things that need to be done. There is nothing more frustrating than getting to your destination and discovering that you left behind your shoes or something else of importance. […]
One of the choruses what we often sing on Wednesday nights is “God can do anything but fail”. If you know the chorus, sing it with me. __ Do you really believe what you sang? Not only can God save, keep and cleanse, He can do anything! He can help you through your trial. He […]
William Carey is known as the father of modern missions. Leaving a thriving Baptist church in England, this young preacher spent the next 40 years of his life preaching the gospel in India. He was instrumental in translating large portions of the Bible into 34 languages. He had a burning desire to see lost souls […]
Why is it that some Christians seem to get their prayers answered and other do not? Well there may be many reasons for that. For example, the Bible lists many hindrances to prayer like wavering faith, praying amiss, sin in the heart, unforgiveness, living in sin, refusing to obey the Bible, discord in the home, […]
God used the preaching of Haggai and Zechariah to stir the hearts of His people and put them into action. They began again to rebuild the temple (Ezr 5:1-2). Once again the devil tried to hinder their work. Officials from Persia came to Jerusalem. This time however, the Jews were determined to obey God and […]
Jesus’ ministry was on front page news. Not only in the local press but also in the national dailies – news about Jesus had reached Jerusalem. A delegation of experts made the 166 km journey to find out just what Jesus was doing and saying in Galilee. While there, they attacked His disciples for not […]
When things happen that don’t make sense to us; our natural response is to ask WHY? No doubt people in Jesus’ day must have asked similar questions, even the disciples. Our text presents several situations that may not at first make sense to us. We may ask why Jesus sent the disciples across Galilee? Why […]
On the farm, we often had a difficult time getting the cows to do what we wanted them to do. Cows can be VERY stubborn. To motivate them to go when they did not want to, we had an electric prod. It was a battery operated tool about the size of a large torch that […]
A retreat is pulling back away from the busyness of life long enough to restore our energy. Someone once said, “If you don’t come apart to rest; you will come apart.” That is true both in our physical lives as well as in our spiritual lives. Jesus’ disciples had just completed their long team evangelism […]
In 2 Corinthians 11:14, the apostle Paul said that the devil has the ability to transform himself in an angel of light. He poses as something good when he is extremely evil. He is the accuser of the brethren (Re 12:10), the deceiver (Re 12:9), the father of lies (Jn 8:44), and a roaring lion […]