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...
Job 1:6-8 “6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. 7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the...
“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...
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...
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...
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....
Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread Matthew 6:26 “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?” God, our heavenly Father, is our provider. When we...
Thy Will Be Done, On Earth As It Is In Heaven We say this as a matter of course when we are reciting the Lord’s Prayer, but do we really mean it? This is the beginning of the part of the Lord’s Prayer that if most people really thought...
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...