Why Study the Bible?

After I had been serving as an Area Team President for a while, I felt I needed to go back and analyze our meeting agendas to see where our focus was, and what we were spending our time on. I was dismayed when my analysis showed over 90% of our Area Team meetings were spent…

Introduction: In the first part of our study on pride, we concentrated on its ugliness and God’s attitude toward it.  In this next section, we will look at humility, the opposite of pride.  First, let’s see what God’s attitude is toward the humble. [ld_quiz quiz_id=”17180″] Downloadable PDF

Introduction: Pride!  God has declared Himself to be a jealous God who will not tolerate our worship of any other gods.  Yet prideful man continues to arrogantly exalt himself rebelliously taking credit for what God has done.  Pride has been defined as “the sin of an uplifted heart against God and man.”   Is it any…

Introduction: Like the disciples, we, too, need help and encouragement to be effective men and women of prayer.  And just as the Lord taught them to pray, so the Holy Spirit can help us to pray as we consider the principles Jesus taught in The Lord’s Prayer.  If we approach this familiar prayer as eager…

Introduction: Picture with me the throne room of God as described in the book of Revelation by the Apostle John.  Around the throne are four living creatures.  “Day and night they never stop saying, ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come” (Rev. 4:8).  Each time this…

As I sat in the crowded waiting room of the Doctor’s office, I suddenly became aware of someone calling out. “Ma’am, maaa’aaamm!” As I looked around, I noticed an older woman in a wheel chair who was smiling at me as she waved her wrist, showing me her bracelet. “Our pearl bracelets – they are…

Introduction: Three feast days were of prime importance to the Israelites:  The Feast of Unleavened Bread (Passover), which celebrated their deliverance from Egypt, The Feast of Harvests, the first fruits of their labors sown in the fields, and The Feast of Ingathering when they harvested the fruit of their labors in the fields. Today, the…

I remember the first prophetic word spoken over me when I was newly baptized in the Holy Spirit. It made me feel warm and excited on the inside, and I dutifully wrote down the gist of the words when I got home. Over time, I added to that entry the ensuing prophecies spoken over me…

Introduction: In the first section of this study, we began to look at the armor and weapons the Christian soldier’s commander equips him with.  So far we have established that we are engaged in a spiritual war, and we have looked at the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, and the gospel of peace. …

Introduction: As Christians we are engaged in a war more insidious than World War l and ll, the Korean War, Vietnam, and our war with Iraq.  While those mentioned are physical wars, ours is a spiritual war between Jesus Christ and His armies and that of our arch-enemy Satan and his hordes. No knowledgeable commander…