Sep 3, 2012 | Matthew
Are there any words or phrases which are particularly yours? A couple of weeks ago, Bro. Bill saw where I had used the word “serendipity,” and he jokingly said, “Hey, you can’t use that word; it is mine.” I laughed at him and then agreed, although he didn’t create...
Sep 2, 2012 | Matthew
A few days after I mentioned the evangelistic DVDs on the back table, one of the members asked me to look at a website criticizing their producer – Ray Comfort. The critic didn’t just criticize – he condemned Mr. Comfort, calling him a “damnable heretic.” I know...
Sep 1, 2012 | Matthew
This is a passage of scripture which appeals to every level of Christian experience. It is good for Sunday School lessons from pre-schoolers to the teens and adults. And it contains enough mystery to baffle John Gill and John Calvin combined. There are lessons here...
Aug 11, 2012 | Matthew
I am told that the beautiful stones, which we call diamonds, are not at all beautiful when they are pulled from the ground. And I suppose that if it was up to me, I’d probably not be aware that I was looking at a raw diamond if I saw one. However, if you showed me a...
Aug 10, 2012 | Matthew
I have lots of questions about this scripture and all the other scriptures which speak about demons. Twenty years ago, I spent weeks studying what the Bible says about Satan and his armies. I read several scholarly works on Satanism, several of which I pulled out...
Aug 9, 2012 | Matthew
Following the spectacular miracle in the midst of the sea, the Lord and His disciples made it across to Gergesa. One of the apparent results of the storm was that the hoard of eavesdroppers all returned to Capernaum. When they had set sail, “there were also with him...
Aug 8, 2012 | Matthew
The great Baptist Missionary Adoniram Judson was in a Burmese prison for preaching the gospel. The king of that country was a Buddhist and was thoroughly intolerant to everything foreign, and Christ is definitely foreign to a Buddhist. It is said that one day Anne,...
Aug 7, 2012 | Matthew
This brief history of a small event in the life of Christ carries with it some huge implications. Adding the accounts of Mark and Luke to what is here in Matthew, we have a full rendering of the event. And of course, as mature Christians we believe every word of it...
Aug 6, 2012 | Matthew
Have you ever noticed that Christ Jesus never had a desire to pastor the biggest church in town? After the public healing of the demon-possessed man in the Capernaum synagogue, and then after the many miraculous healings early on Sunday evening, He went to bed –...
Aug 5, 2012 | Matthew
As I said last week, Christ Jesus was in Caperaum and had earlier in the day spent time in the local synagogue. Mark and Luke tell us that He was more than just a visitor – He was asked to speak. Both gospels speak of Jesus’ “exousia” – His unusual authority in...
