It was a great human-interest story: a first century catering crisis with a divine intervention, and a happy ending. Join Liam Goligher as he looks at the first of Jesus’ miracles--one that resulted ...
This week’s lessons teach us to shine our lights in a dark world. Yesterday we began to look at autonomy, a view that characterizes our culture. Before the age of modernism, when people believed there ...
The second plague was an abnormal multiplication of frogs. God told Pharaoh to let His people go, and that if he did not, the Lord would bring a plague of frogs upon the country, in the Nile, in ...
In this week’s lessons, we learn that the one true God, the Lord of heaven and earth, cares for the lowliest individual, however great their need. Our starting point is to notice that this is a strong ...
In this week’s lessons, we learn about the principle of giving, and the blessings that come from the Lord upon both the giver and the recipient. Now there is one more point about how we are to give ...
And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. He said to them, “It is ...
In this week’s lessons we look at the nature of the church, which is itself a picture of the eternal City of Zion, of which every Christian is a citizen. The theme of these verses is Gentiles and Jews ...
Theme: The glory of the Gospel. This week’s lessons teach us about what God is doing in the world today. In this whole section of 2 Corinthians, the portion that I really like the best is the last.
In this week’s lessons, we learn about the hypocrisy of judging, and the need to replace sinful judgmentalism with a love for others. Now all of this really leads up to one great final point, and that ...
There are 13 chapters in the book of 2 Corinthians. This seventh chapter is the summary, or wrap-up, of what has come before. 2 Corinthians can be divided easily into three parts: chapters 1 through 7 ...
In this week’s lessons we see that although great harm is done by evil people through their words, the word of the Lord remains a sure foundation and support for all those who put their trust in him.
One of the most important things that can be said about a Christian marriage is that within the relationship God has established an organic union between two persons—an organic union, not an ...