Saul was a brand new Christian, and everybody was afraid of him. He was infamous as the leader in stoning Stephen to death. Saul led in a widespread persecution of Christians. In Acts chapters 8 and 9, he is making havoc of the church, searching houses to find Christians and ...
Read More »Follow Jesus, Then Serve
Jesus said in John 12:26, “If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honor.” Sometimes, we get the cart before the horse. Jesus made it hard for people to follow ...
Read More »When God Laughs
In Russia last year, Alexander Kudryavtsev, head of a prestigious genetics institute, was fired for stating that he believed that man lived to be over 900 years and more before the flood. The reason for shortened lives after that was because of original, ancestral, and personal sins,’ causing genetic diseases.” ...
Read More »Called to Disciple a Murderer
Everything he ever learned and believed was changed in an instant. Ananias had grown up as a faithful, devout Jew. He entered Jerusalem on this life-changing day for the feast of Pentecost, which the Jews called Shavuot. They sometimes called it the “Feast of Weeks” since they observed it seven ...
Read More »Biblical Christian Marriage Commitment
Customs and ideas about marriage change over the years. But God’s Word doesn’t. A recent survey (The Hill) reported that two in five young adults consider marriage an outdated tradition. Another study from the Institute for Family Studies found that nearly 80% of teens expect to cohabit before marriage. In ...
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