Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ. Colossians 2:8 WEB Whether it is secular or based on a particular theology, our bias can lead us into false conclusions. For this...
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord...
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband. Ephesians 5:33 WEB The love commanded by God is full of grace. God loves us in spite of our failings with an active love that the Greeks called “agape.” This love is...
He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.” Luke 24:44 NIV Jesus is the focal point of God’s plan for our salvation. Sin separates man from God. Our Creator is holy...
You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. John 5:39 WEB When you search the scriptures, the psalms, the prophets, and the law received by Moses predate and testify to the coming of Christ and the love of God. The...
They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” Acts 16:31 WEB At the beginning of chapter sixteen in Acts, Paul and Silas went to Lystra where Timothy joined them. As they travel from town to town, they deliver rules decided by the apostles and elders...
You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. Matthew 5:14 WEB In the previous verse, Jesus calls his disciples the salt of the earth. Here, Jesus uses another metaphor to describe his followers. Christ calls his faithful the light of the world. As followers of the Son...
Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you. Luke 6:38 WEB In this section of the sixth chapter of Luke, Jesus continues to teach the godly concept of...
in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, Ephesians 1:7 WEB These words about Jesus concerning the riches of his grace come to us from Paul’s praises of God and the Lord, Jesus Christ, in the opening of his letter to...
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you!” John 20:19 NIV Chapter twenty of John’s gospel account begins with the discovery of Jesus’ empty...
For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. Romans 1:16 WEB Our beliefs directly affect our actions in life. Faith in God leads the believer in submission to something greater than...
My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one. John 10:29-30 WEB The Old Testament promises a Messiah. Because of this, many came to assert their fulfillment of this promise. In the first potion of chapter...
