Put yourself in Abraham’s sandals. You have no child. Not even one. Yet one night in Hebron, the Lord comes to you and says, ‘Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy…
One day ‘out of the blue’ I received a phone call from a relative who rarely spoke to me. He was preparing to meet someone we knew who could give him money. After two minutes of conversing, he hung up, and went back to…
The Apostle Paul is preaching Christ to the Jews at Rome. He concludes a long day of preaching with a quotation from Isaiah 6:8-10. (By the way, comparing these Scriptures shows that the Holy Ghost is Adonai, a clear reference to God. The JWs…
The Apostle Paul is speaking to the Jewish leadership. Gazing intently at them, he testifies: ‘I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.’ On the dashboard of our cars are warning lights. When…
Here is a multitude in an uproar because they heard that the Apostle Paul was anti-Moses, and because of a rumour that they ‘supposed’ to be true. None of this was fact. It was fake news, and it nearly killed Paul.
The Apostle Paul is in Corinth on his second missionary journey. As is his custom, he first offers the word of the Lord to the Jews in their synagogue. Our verse today shows the response the majority of them gave. Focus in with me on Paul’s response. Did he go into an emotional…
Notice that what this young woman said was good. She was supernaturally verifying that these men were worthy of everyone’s attention because they spoke for God. So where was the problem? The problem is what…
This verse is saying that a grey head is glorious when it is walking in paths of righteousness. The verse set me to thinking about ‘the way of righteousness.’ The word way literally speaks of a road or path, and figuratively alludes to a course…
Each time my son and I travel to Sydney for work, we start the trip by listening to a sermon. Yesterday’s sermon was probably the most moving sermon on hell I’ve ever heard. Pastor Reg Kelly ministers in…
This is the moment that changed everything. Saul has recently been causing ‘havoc of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women commit[ing] them to prison’ (Acts 8:3). The word havoc expresses the…
Stephen is concluding his sermon to the Jews of his day. He has shown that their parents have a history of repaying the goodness of the Lord with disobedience and idolatry. Here he gives it to them straight, saying…
What glorious words to read! They’re made even more glorious when we consider that just seven weeks earlier these same men were at Gethsemane, fleeing, denying and quaking. Remember how…
