The Call of Levi (Mark 2)
“The Call of Levi”Mark 2:13-17 Recorded in three of the Gospels, the call of Levi (Matthew) was like all other conversions – a unique miracle of the new birth demonstrating the power and authority of...
View ArticleGod Pays For What He Orders
"Not that I speak in respect of want ..." Philippians 4:11 It is noteworthy that Paul never made his own financial needs known. His was a life of faith. He believed that God had called him into His...
View ArticleYour Own
As one thinks back to the days of his childhood, perhaps one of the earliest recollections was the thrill, pride and joy of personal owner-ship. To be able to say of a certain thing: “This is my very...
View ArticleThree Questions
Undoubtedly this is the day of the questionnaire. Quiz programs were never so prevalent and popular as today. For several years one of the best known programs on the radio was called “Information...
View ArticleThe Gift of Faith
D. L. Moody was once asked if he thought faith was a gift of God. He replied, “Some say that faith is the gift of God. So is the air, but you have to breathe it; so is bread, but you have to eat it; so...
View ArticleWhat is a Dead Faith? James 2
“Faith without works is dead.” So spoke James in the second chapter of his epistle. His statement has been appealed to many times to support the idea that works are necessary for eternal...
View ArticleNicodemus
“There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: the same came to Jesus by night”(John 3:1,2). When we turn in the Bible to John chapter three we find recorded for our learning...
View ArticleFaith
Many in the world, and even some Christians, have a misunderstanding of faith. To some it is something we build up like energy and when it reaches a certain level we are able to accomplish miracles....
View ArticleFaith Tested
In the path of Christ the time surely comes when faith is put to the proof. It is one thing in the confidence of grace and at the summons of the truth to turn one’s back on the fairest pretension...
View ArticleFaith For the Work
The religious world as a whole treats church work as a business. Money is solicited; pledges are taken and budgets are made up. Church workers are hired and may be fired. Polls and surveys are taken...
View ArticleEvidences for the Truth of Christian Faith 4/22/06
Perhaps the foremost evidence of Christian truth is the Person of Jesus the Messiah. No other person in history is like Him. All time is divided into the periods of B.C. (before Christ) and A.D....
View ArticleFaith
Lesson 1Through faith, we receive God’s salvation. In Hebrews 11:4 we see that, by faith, Abel offered up a sacrifice. For a definition of faith, see Hebrews 11:1, “Now faith is being sure of what we...
View ArticleGalatians
The ReadersGalatia was a Roman province in Asia Minor. It was populated chiefly by Gauls who emigrated from France in 300 B.C. They were a very impulsive, changeable people.This probably accounts for...
View ArticleLuke 4:16-32
Faith The chief characteristic of this present age is materialism. A wave of rationalism and faithlessness is surfacing around and abroad. Faith is being strangled and many wrecks are being cast upon...
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