Biblical Teachings

Telling It Like It Is

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Don’t underestimate your testimony’s impact—God knows how to make your story reach those who need to hear it. Psalms 1261 (A Song of degrees.) When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.3 The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.4 Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.6 He that …

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Pit Principles

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By Denise Kohlmeyer Pits happen. Every day. To everyone. Even to God’s cherished children. Our lives’ landscapes are pock-marked with pits, of varying shapes, sizes and depths. I know! I’m a survivor of multiple pits myself. Mine came in the form of emotional abuse from a drug-addicted sibling, from flunking out of college, from being down-sized from a job I loved, from suffering a miscarriage, from being disinherited by my own father, from marital and parenting struggles, and from experiencing bouts of crippling fear and anxiety. Boy can I relate to the beloved Biblical character Joseph, who found himself in …

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Only be thou strong and very courageous.” Joshua 1:7

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Our God’s tender love for his servants makes him concerned for the state of their inward feelings. He desires them to be of good courage. Some esteem it a small thing for a believer to be vexed with doubts and fears, but God thinks not so. From this text it is plain that our Master would not have us entangled with fears. He would have us without carefulness, without doubt, without cowardice. Our Master does not think so lightly of our unbelief as we do. When we are desponding we are subject to a grievous malady, not to be trifled …

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Persecution – by Hal Lindsey

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  This week, unimpeded migration-invasion continues across the globe. As martyred Christians are buried en masse in Asia and Africa, Islam remains in that rare class of protected parties among the world’s media and globalist elites, even though Islam is the world’s dominant producer of terrorism (and Christians the most persecuted class of people on […]

“But now is Christ risen from the dead.”—1 Corinthians 15:20.

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THE whole system of Christianity rests upon the fact that “Christ is risen from the dead;” for, “If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain: ye are yet in your sins.” The divinity of Christ finds its surest proof in His resurrection, since He was “Declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead.” It would not be unreasonable to doubt His Deity if He had not risen. Moreover, Christ’s sovereignty depends upon His resurrection, “For to this end Christ …

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Genuine Awareness

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If you’re wondering whether God is present, try shifting the focus of your prayers to Him 2 KINGS 6:15-1715 Now when the attendant of the man of God had risen early and gone out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was circling the city. And his servant said to him, Alas, my master! What shall we do?” 16 So he answered, Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” 17 Then Elisha prayed and said, O LORD, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” And the LORD opened …

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He Goes Before Us

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He Goes Before Us Joshua 3:4“Yet there shall be a space between you and it (the Ark of the Covenant), about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before.” _____________________________________________________________“…that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way before.” What a comfort this must have been to the children who had been born during Israel’s time of wandering in the wilderness. They had grown up seeing the benefits of God — the …

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Ziklag

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Reflections Ziklag And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way. (I Sam. 30:1-2) David had been told he would be king, and yet he had spent years in the desert fleeing from Saul. But he had been given the city of Ziklag. Ziklag was the last refuge …

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The Test of Time

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Exodus 16:1–36 Bread from Heaven 16 They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt. 2 And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness, 3 and the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and …

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The Apostasy of the Church Part II

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At the heart of theological liberalism is an attack on the authority of the Bible. A central attack is to question the traditional authorship and historicity of the Pentateuch and other parts of Scripture. The result is to question or openly deny Old Testament prophecy and the dating of the writing of Old Testament books. Two examples of this are: Julius A. Bewer, Union Theological Seminary Professor: “The dates and figures found in the first five books of the Bible turn out to be altogether unreliable” (Bewer, The Literature of the Old Testament, 1940) A more recent illustration of liberalism …

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“Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” John 5:8

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Like many others, the impotent man had been waiting for a wonder to be wrought, and a sign to be given. Wearily did he watch the pool, but no angel came, or came not for him; yet, thinking it to be his only chance, he waited still, and knew not that there was One near him whose word could heal him in a moment. Many are in the same plight: they are waiting for some singular emotion, remarkable impression, or celestial vision; they wait in vain and watch for nought. Even supposing that, in a few cases, remarkable signs are …

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Our Reason for Hope

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God’s love has no limits: It reaches all people, regardless of their shortcomings or circumstances 1 JOHN 4:7-107 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and …

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‘the Prodigal Son,’

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In Jesus parable, found in Luke 15:11 – 32, concerning the younger son of the Father, who is commonly known as ‘the Prodigal Son,’ is an amazing word picture for all of us. In verse 12, we find the younger son asking his Father to give to him what ‘belonged to him’. This is the crux of the parable, the taking of the things of God and making them our own for what we perceive as personal gain, and going off in life to use them for our own purposes. We would call this, self ownership and government. The Father …

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