The Parkway church of Christ hosted a Gospel Meeting October 18-21 and invited Bill Reeves to come preach. Brother Reeves has spent many years preaching the gospel and there are a number of valuable lessons and reminders in his sermons. The audio files are posted on the church’s website. I also have them listed here: […]
Continue reading... October 22, 2009
Contrasting the Righteous and the Wicked: A Brief Examination of Psalm 1
In the first psalm, we read of a sharp contrast between the righteous and the wicked. As we strive to be righteous and avoid wickedness, let us briefly consider the words of the psalmist.
Continue reading... October 20, 2009
The Fourfold Foundation of the Gospel
“For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. After that He appeared […]
Continue reading... October 14, 2009
More Righteous than the Religious
The title of this article may sound a little odd. But let me begin by stating that this article is not about how organized religion is wrong – it is not. The point of the article is not to say that religious people are not righteous – many of them are, and they should be. […]
Continue reading... October 12, 2009
The Rapid Spread of Islam: Should Christians be Concerned?
A new report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has found that approximately 1.57 billion people are now Muslim. This means that nearly 1 in 4 people in the world practice Islam. To have this kind of growth, the religion is obviously spreading beyond the countries already dominated by Islam. The report […]
Continue reading... October 8, 2009
Noah Found Favor in the Eyes of the Lord
In Genesis 3, we read about sin being introduced into the world. Just three chapters later, the sins of man had progressed and compounded to such a point that “the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5). It […]
Continue reading... October 4, 2009
Everything Pertaining to Life and Godliness
Peter wrote that God has “granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness” (2 Peter 1:3). We can be assured by knowing that there is nothing that we need that God has not provided or will not provide for us. In order to make it to heaven, we simply need to take advantage of […]
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