Being Perfect

Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. “I’m not perfect” is a common phrase that is tossed around in Christian circles after we fall in some area of life or ministry. What we should really be saying is, “I’m not...

Problems, Praise, and Prayer

Philippians 4:5 Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. As Paul is winding down this letter to the church at Philippi, he mentions the concern that he has for two prominent women in the church who were at odds with one another and causing a...

Beware!

Philippians 3:2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. Ten times our Lord Jesus gave the warning to beware. Three of the warnings were to beware of false prophets (Matthew 7:15), of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees (Matthew 16:6,...

Counterculture Christianity

Luke 9:23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. “Counterculture” is a buzzword in our nation today. Its basic message is calling for a radical change of society that is based on new,...

The Risen Lord…The Living Savior

John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: Jesus is the summation of whatever the “theology” of the resurrection is all about. Jesus came, He died on the cross, He was buried,...