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, […]

In the 15th and 16th chapters of the Book of Exodus we find the Lord (later known as Jesus of Nazareth) explaining to Moses what He is about to do and why. Having heard the recently-freed Israelites’ complaints about His food and drink provisions, God saw the need to “prove” them (15:26;16:4). Instead of accepting […]

Beginning with Adam and Eve, the ever-adaptable devil has proven his ability to adjust to the needs and wants of the God-seeking public in every age. From encounters on a road-side to the internet, he has time and again shown his penchant for change. His latest offerings have come in the form of made-for-television movies. […]

Having come from an uber-religious family (Baptist and Church of Christ with a smattering of Catholic), and having studied the teachings of other so-called churches as well as other “isms” found throughout the world, I am well acquainted with the various methods Satan has used since the Garden of Eden to lure clients into his […]