It’s been quite some time since I was visited by Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses, but a few weeks ago a missionary from the JWs came to my door and has come back every week since, except this past Friday. He gives me his literature and insisted I watch a...
“1 Corinthians 12:31 31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.” Paul left a cliffhanger right in the middle of his first letter to the Corinthians. Although he didn’t divide his letter into chapters, the early fathers who assembled the text...
The first mention of the Holy Spirit in the Bible is in the second verse of the first chapter of Genesis. Genesis 1:1-2 “1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness upon the face of...
Who Jesus is, is not a mystery. The Bible tells us who He is very plainly. John 1:1-3, 14 “1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were...
Philippians 2:3 “3 nothing through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.” This is in the top five of my favorite verses in the entire Bible. I really sums up how we should think of one another and behave...
The Bible is all about relationships. Firstly, it describes how our relationship with God should be, and secondly, it talks about our relationship with one another. I discussed our relationship with God the Father a bit in this post on the Lord’s Prayer. But there is more. Hebrews 4:16 “16 Let...
Prayer – For Thine Is The Kingdom, And The Power, And The Glory, Forever, Amen John the Baptizer preached it. Matthew 3:1-2 “1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, 2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Jesus...
The Lord’s Prayer – Lead Us Not Into Temptation, But Deliver Us From Evil Hebrews 4:15 “15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as without sin.” It is...
Forgive Us Our Debts As We Forgive Our Debtors Even though this prayer is made so often that we seldom really think about the words, most of us are probably very sincere about the first half of this, “Forgive us our debts.” We want God to forgive our sins....
Thy Kingdom Come 2Timothy 4:8 “Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” Christ will establish a new kingdom here...