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 ...
In this week’s lessons Dr. Boice teaches us how to live godly lives in an ungodly world. In Monday’s study I commented on Francis Schaeffer’s book How Should We Then Live? saying that "then" is the ...
In our first and second posts on James Durham’s essay, "Concerning Ministerial Qualifications," we saw that the prerequisites “for the complete qualifying of a Minster” were “Gifts, Learning, and ...
He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the ...
In the midst of these three chapters that lay down the principles we covered yesterday, we find 1 Corinthians 13, the great chapter on love. In times past when I looked at these chapters and tried to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In this week’s lessons, God is displayed as the righteous Judge who demonstrates his wrath toward sinners, but mercy toward his chosen people. The opening stanza of this psalm (vv. 1-3) sounds to most ...
The second thing we must recognize is that in this world, if we are to live as God's children, there are times when we shall simply have to run away from the temptation. I do not believe that this is ...