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If you’ve started reading the book of Genesis let me give you a practical principle you’ll find throughout the book.  Keep it in mind as you read.  Have you ever said, “Oh no!  I knew this would happen”?  Was it said in an attitude of disgust when everythi...

 If you haven’t taken up the challenge I shared to read through the Bible over the next two years, let me again encourage you to Read it through in two!  Read 2 chapters a day.  For the next few days, I will be focusing on the early chapters of Genesis to ...

Happy New Year! In our last visit I encouraged you to embark on an adventure, committing yourself to read through the Bible during the next two years.  Read it through in two!  This will require reading about 2 chapters a day.  I have literature to help yo...

As we come to the close of this year my prayer is that you’ll experience God’s love through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and grow in His grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Paul’s prayer in Philippians 3:10, close to the end ...

 If you’ve been listening to this program, you know the purpose of the program is to encourage people to read and study the Bible as a vital part of everyday life.  As I teach the Bible, I try to help you understand how I study the Bible so you can learn s...

Something that has always intrigued me as I read the Biblical account of the Christmas story is how God fulfilled His promise through the centuries.  Let me explain. He first promised a Messiah in the Garden of Eden.  He had to work through fallen humanity...

We’ve traced how God predicted in the Old Testament what would happen when the Messiah came.  We found that Jesus would be born in Bethlehem.  This is interesting, since the virgin chosen to give birth to the promised child lived in the town of Nazareth, a...

As I mentioned in our last visit, Christmas is a time we celebrate the love gift God the Father gave us.  This gift is Jesus Christ who brings eternal life to everyone who by faith receives Him.  I trust you’ve received Him as your Savior.  If you haven’t,...

What we celebrate during the Christmas season was love driven and directed.  Let me review what God did to show His love for you, for us, for the world.  John 3:16-17 declares, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever bel...

One of the most surprising things to me in the study of love that we’ve been doing based on John 13-17 is what Jesus said about love in relation to prayer.  In John 16:23-27 Jesus says that up to that point the disciples came to Him when they wanted someth...

We’ve been doing a topical study on “love” as found in John 13-17 using the 3 “C” approach: collect, correlate and crystallize.  We’ve collected what the 30 references to “love” in these chapters said and correlated this information into an outline.  Title...

We’ve been correlating into an outline the information we collected regarding love as found in John 13-17.  The final point I would like to reflect on is the quality of love.  The “Suma bona” in this study of love is seen in the love relationship between G...

In our study of love as found in John 13-17 we’ve considered the Father’s love, Jesus’s love and our love as believers.  Now let’s look at love as experienced and expressed by the world. Jesus said, those who don’t have “agape” love for Him will not obey H...

In our last visit we began to look at what Jesus said about our love in John 13-17.  In 13:1 it says that Jesus had loved His disciples and was about to show the full extent of His love to them.  At the end of chapter 17 it says that Jesus prayed for the d...

We’ve been studying the topic of “love” as presented in John 13-17.  First, we collected what is said about love in the thirty references to it in these 5 chapters.  Then we correlated what we found into an outline.  We’ve looked at the Father’s love for H...

In our last visit we studied what is said in John 13-17 about God the Father’s love.  Let’s now organize what is said in these chapters about Jesus Christ’s love.  He and the Father shared a love relationship throughout eternity past.  During His earthly l...

When reflecting on what Jesus said about love as found in John 13-17 it’s obvious that God the Father is a loving God.  He loved Jesus.  This theme permeates these chapters.  While Jesus was here on earth He remained in His Father’s love.  What amazed me i...

In the book of Jude, verse 21, we’re encouraged to keep ourselves in the love of God while we wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring us to eternal life.  This got me thinking.  Millions have read the best-selling book by Rick Warren, The Purp...

In our last visit I encouraged you to always remember the essence of a Christian worldview. Review it when the going gets rough.  It’ll encourage, comfort and inspire you to press on and persevere courageously. Since it’s too soon to quit, what should I be...

We’ve been doing a 4 “S”  approach in studying 2 Thessalonians 1.  We first spread out the information found in these verses and sorted it into topics.  We then structured these topics into an outline.  Now we’re ready to summarize what we’ve found into so...

There’s one final point in our study of Paul’s prayer recorded in 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12.  He prayed that their walk would be counted worthy by God and that their work, the good purposes established and acted on by faith, might be fulfilled by God’s power...

In our last visit we considered how to determine a good purpose.  This is important to understand what Paul prayed for in 2 Thessalonians 1:11: “We constantly pray for you, that our God…by his power may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act pro...

We’ve been studying Paul’s prayer in 2 Thessalonians 1:11: that God, by his power “may fulfill every good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith.”   Let’s consider how to determine what would qualify as a good purpose. The danger is always p...

In our last visit we considered the importance of our walk being worthy in God’s sight, based on 2 Thessalonians 1:11.  Today let’s consider what Paul prayed in the same verse about our work. “By his (that is God’s) power he may fulfill every good purpose ...

In 2 Thessalonians 1:1-10 we discover the power of a Biblical worldview. Understanding who God is and how He operates in our world is cause for thanksgiving no matter what circumstances we might be in as believers. With this as a foundation to stand on Pau...