And He Saw Their Faith

Our faith is expressed in both noun and verb form. In the noun form, it is what we call our “Statement of Faith”, or doctrinal beliefs. God wants us to have sound doctrine, for obvious reasons. However, in day-to-day living, it’s the “verb faith” that is needed. Noun...

Jesus Is Coming!

That blessed hope has encouraged saints in all generations, and the anticipation of the second coming of Christ is to have an effect on my conduct before others: Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. The fact that Jesus could come for His...

Holiness In Action

In both the Old and New Testaments we read about a heavenly scene where God is being worshipped with the words, Holy, Holy, Holy. God is Holy; in fact, that is His very Name. He alone is reverend (or awesome). Rather than being a part of creation, God is the Creator...

Just Think About It

Wouldn’t it be great if there were Bible verses that sounded like, Think about prayer, or Think about giving. I mean, with a Bible like that I could be almost perfect! Now, however, I could probably author a book entitled, The Book of Good Intentions. The...

Faith Produces Fruit

In Luke’s 13th chapter we find the Lord speaking in parabolic form about how a certain man planted a fig tree in his vineyard and came to it looking for fruit. This parable closely follows our Lord’s teaching about repentance. Genuine repentance toward God...