Good Elderships

15 Dec 2019

Good Elderships

December 15, 2019

One of the features of great congregations which are fully and scripturally organized is that they have good elderships. This is usually one of the first things mentioned when you ask their people how their congregation is doing. They say, “We have a good eldership.” What makes a “good eldership?” […]

08 Dec 2019

God’s Law Of Exclusion

December 8, 2019

In the Bible we find generic as well as specific commands. Generic commands are general in nature and do not specify any particular method for obeying them. For example, the Great Commission features a general command to “go into all the world,” but is not specific as to how to […]

01 Dec 2019

Deathbed Repentance

December 1, 2019

You may have heard this expression used to describe what someone supposedly did in order to be saved, immediately before they died. After living a life of sin and dissipation, they supposedly repented on their deathbed, at the last minute, just in the nick of time in order to be […]

24 Nov 2019

In One Place

November 24, 2019

Should the Lord’s church assemble in one place? And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Acts 2:1 with one accord -adverb from a compound of the base of <G3674> (homou) and <G2372> (thumos); unanimously :- with one accord (mind).— […]

17 Nov 2019

An Enemy Hath Done This

November 17, 2019

A wise, experienced farmer surveyed his new wheat crop, and noticed something dreadfully wrong. There among the young wheat plants were tares, weeds which look deceptively similar to wheat. He knew at once what had happened. This was not a bad batch of seed with two or three imposters in […]

10 Nov 2019

Calling Him Lord

November 10, 2019

Calling Jesus our “Lord,” and behaving like he truly is our Lord are two very different things. Jesus highlighted the difference with a probing question, “Why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say” (Lk. 6:46). He went on to give a comparison which illustrates […]

03 Nov 2019

Our Christian Schools

November 3, 2019

When we speak of “our Christian schools,” several reminders are probably in order. First, they are “ours” in the sense that we are associated with them, we are working together with them, and together we are advancing the same interests and goals. They are not “ours” in the sense of […]

27 Oct 2019

Some Questions We Should Be Asking

October 27, 2019

People who grow and mature are people who ask questions. I taught a college course in Business Law for about 10 years, and I could always tell the students who would do the best in the class. They usually sat near the front, were always tuned into the lectures, and […]

20 Oct 2019

Lessons From The Farm: Firewood

October 20, 2019

It’s no coincidence that Jesus often used farming illustrations in his public teaching. He would talk about sowing the seed, various soil types, tearing down and rebuilding barns, etc. There are so many lessons one can learn from watching the way we work with nature, and listening to God’s creation […]

13 Oct 2019

Giving Thanks

October 13, 2019

When I was a boy, meal times always began by giving thanks. We would bow our heads around the family table, and my dad would word a prayer of thanksgiving before we began to eat. When I was old enough, sometimes I would be called upon to lead the prayer. […]