Feb 7, 2021 | Sunday Morning
If you’ve never heard the ancient Indian story about the blind men and the elephant, I will correct your lack of education right now. A group of blind men were told that a strange animal, called an “elephant,” had been brought to their town. Not only had they never...
Jan 31, 2021 | Sunday Morning
As you might surmise, I am still building on a message which started two weeks ago. When Joseph and Mary brought the infant Jesus into the temple to give Him to Jehovah, Simeon was there to greet them. He had been looking for the “consolation of Israel” – the comfort...
Jan 24, 2021 | Sunday Morning
Sister Brenda Roberts and I were joking back and forth on Thursday about the need to learn new things. She is apparently right-handed, and it was her right shoulder which had surgery on Monday. So she is having to learn to do simple, every-day things differently –...
Jan 17, 2021 | Sunday Morning
Thursday I was thinking about a particular subject, trying to prepare it for this morning’s message. After an hour or so, I got side-tracked onto this scripture, and something slightly different developed. I don’t know what the Holy Spirit has in store for us, but...
Jan 3, 2021 | Sunday Morning
We have no way of knowing how long Paul was in Athens before moving across the isthmus to Corinth. By the year 51 AD, Athens had lost its greatest luster and had a population of about 20,000 – smaller than Post Falls. This was about a fifth the size of bustling...
Dec 27, 2020 | Sunday Morning
When I ask someone to read the scriptures during our song service, there is usually a specific thought in that scripture which I plan to emphasize during my message. But, unless the reader has seen the sermon title and made an accurate guess about my intent, he won’t...
Dec 20, 2020 | Sunday Morning
This has been one of the most unusual “Christmas” seasons in our life times. Many of the traditional social and family activities are being cancelled, curtailed or changed because of the virus hysteria. But life must go on, as they say. So our neighbors and some of...
Dec 6, 2020 | Sunday Morning
When we started this study last April, I said that Nehemiah could be used as an illustration of a New Testament Christian. Despite not knowing anything of Jesus Christ, this man’s trust was in Jehovah, and his service was for the glory of God. As we have seen over the...
Nov 29, 2020 | Sunday Morning
Permit me to use my imagination for a few moments. You can join me if you’d like. I am picturing a young Hebrew man – one of sons of prophets – trained in one of the schools of Elijah. He already has some experience using his gifts of prophecy, preaching and...
Nov 22, 2020 | Sunday Morning
In order to get to this morning’s lesson, we have to look at two background items. As you know, Nehemiah is one of the Bible’s historical books; it is not poetry or prophesy. Yet despite being history, like Acts, for example – it is filled with the application of...
Nov 15, 2020 | Sunday Morning
Let’s begin this morning with a little quiz. If I gave you a piece of paper and asked you to write Mark 15:38, how would you spell the word “veil”? The verse reads, “And the VEIL of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.” Would you spell it“veil,” or...
Nov 8, 2020 | Sunday Morning
One of the blessings of the Book of Acts is that it is practical. In reading Acts we can see the work of the Lord in ways that relate more directly to us than when we study some of the other books of the Bible. For example, we know the abstract principle that God is...
Nov 1, 2020 | Sunday Morning
The verses we have just read describe a part of the dedication service for Israel’s first priests. In some ways the sacrifice involved in this ceremony was unique. But in other ways it was much like the daily burnt offerings or any of the personal sin offerings. In...
Oct 25, 2020 | Sunday Morning
Junior was born into a Baptist home and was taken to a small Baptist church throughout his childhood. He was a smart – precocious – an outgoing little kid, participating in his Sunday School classes, listening to the lessons and sometimes even to the sermons. He...
Sep 27, 2020 | Sunday Morning
I wish that I could somehow paint the scene that I have in my head. I picture several thousand hungry eyes resting on the pulpit which had been built in the Water Gate street. Ezra and Nehemiah are standing toward the back of the raised platform, and immediately in...
