Why did Jesus preach and tell His apostles and future apostles to preach one basic message–the earthly Kingdom of God? Because that is where true saints will spend eternity with Him and the Father. As we are told repeatedly in the Scriptures, to enter that kingdom requires more than faith in Jesus Christ; it requires […]

In Matthew 5:6 the true seeker of God is told that he will be blessed if he hungers and thirsts for righteousness. Nowhere in the Scriptures are we told to hunger and thirst for anything else–not ministry, not wisdom, not eloquence. Though these things are worth seeking and attaining, without righteousness they are meaningless. Many […]

In the previous posting I introduced the life-style (“walk”) of a true Christian–a “saint”–as described by Jesus Christ in what has been labeled the “Sermon on the Mount.” As always, I took the reader to the Word of God for proof of what I wrote. Let us continue to study the mountainside sermon in order […]

The Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5,6,7) gives the God-seeker a composite view of the standards a true Christian meets in his daily life. This makes him/her “peculiar” in the eyes of the religious masses. May we all be seen as peculiar; may we all live up to His standards so as to receive eternal […]

Disciple: One who patterns one’s life after another. Christian: One who lives one’s life after the physical and verbal pattern set by Jesus Christ–one who is His disciple. To show how important it is to emulate Him exactly, upon ascending to the Father the risen Savior arranged for an historical account of His doings and […]

It seems that each day brings another call by the social gospelists to “love” the Middle-Easterners and North Africans whom the administration is intent on bringing here. The reason for the big immigrant push is to create a voting block that will guarantee success to any and all liberal political candidates in the future. What […]

The Apostle Paul is by far the best example of a spiritual giant who had to be taught God’s more perfect way. By his own admission Paul, a Pharisee of Pharisees who had progressed far beyond his contemporaries in all things concerning God, was at the top of the religious hierarchy in the Jewish world. […]

In Acts 16:9-15 we find that Paul has received a vision in which a man from Macedonia asked him to come over into his country and help his people. Paul assumed that God had given him the vision as a call for him to go into Macedonia and “preach the (one true) gospel to them.” […]

A question that sometimes comes up during religious discussions concerns how many Christians there are in the world today? Most people use the answer produced by global surveys, meaning those who answer “yes” when asked if he/she is a Christian. According to those surveys, approximately two billion people identify themselves as Christians, Protestants edging out […]

In John 6 we find that Jesus, having recently fed some 5000 people, is again confronted by the same people who have arrived in Capernaum in search of Him. Upon seeing them He told them that they had not followed Him because they saw the miracles He had performed on the physically and spiritually ill, […]