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15 Oct

Take Every Opportunity

EVANGELISM ARTICLE | Jeff Carr | Lakeland, Florida

“Conduct yourselves with wisdom toward outsiders, making the most of the opportunity. Your speech must always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.” – Col 4:5-6

This passage of Scripture is a marvelous passage where Paul talks about how we should teach the Gospel to those who are outsiders and how we should interact with others. This verse presupposes that we will be interacting with non-Christians about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Are we praying and looking for such opportunities? Are we praying to “make the most” of each opportunity that comes our way? Since we are to “conduct ourselves with wisdom” we need to prepare for this and make sure our speech and actions are full of Godly wisdom. The Apostle Paul is telling each of us that we need to think about our opportunities and that we need to make sure we are doing the best we can in trying to reach out to others who are not Christians. Read More →

15 Oct

Love One Another

BEYOND THE BASICS Kyle Boyd | Wichita, Kansas

At the time of me penning this article it has been one year and two months since the tragic loss of someone whom I loved dearly, Sean Cavender. He was someone who loved others dearly but most importantly exemplified the love of Christ to the world. When thinking of a word to describe Sean, love is the first word that comes to mind and love is what this article is about. Sean was a Bible preacher and few topics are talked about more in the Bible than love. Few are also the number of people that come to mind that manifest this love for people as much as Sean did. People were Sean’s hobby. Read More →

20 Jul

The Hall of Faith: Faith Waits On God

EXPOSITORY ARTICLE | Marshall McDaniel | Athens, Alabama

Do we trust God, even when He asks us to wait? Scripture repeatedly issues the command to wait on the Lord and often associates it with divine blessing. The Bible affirms that believers who wait on God will experience His goodness, joy, salvation, and strength (Lamentations 3:15; Psalm 27:13-14; Isaiah 25:9; 40:31). Hebrews 11 mentions several notable people – Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, Moses, and the Israelites – who waited for God and received His gracious gifts. In this study, we will consider the perseverance of moses, Joshua, and Israel. Their examples show us thhatt waiting on the Lord always yields the best results. Read More →

20 Jul

How Christ Relates to the Church : Our Great High Priest

CHURCH ARTICLE | Wayne Goff | Franklin, North Carolina

The book of Hebrews presents Jesus Christ as our Great High Priest.

“Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house” (3:1-2)

In order for Jesus to be High Priest from the tribe of Judah, there had to be a change in the law. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is that last will and testament which establishes Him as the High Priest over the church today. He is both King and Priest! Read More →

20 Jul

1 Corinthians 14 and Edification

WORSHIP ARTICLE | T. Sean Sullivan | Paragould, Arkansas

Introduction:
Being built up in the knowledge of God’s will was different way back when Paul penned the first epistle to the Corinthians. In the early church, before the completion of God’s inspired revelation, the hearts of the brethren were built up by the information given through gifts of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 14:1-40). Read More →

20 Jul

How To Answer A False Doctrine

APPLICATION ARTICLE | Sean Cavender | in memoriam
– via Meditate On These Things, May 2014 [from Sean’s days in Bradley, AR]

Quite possibly one of the most difficult things you will ever have to deal with is your approach to false teaching. There are many factors that one must give thought towards in this important discussion. False teachers have been a plague to the Lord’s church since the days of the apostles. Paul identified false brethren who had snuck into the churches of Galatia (Galatians 2:4). Peter warned of how false brethren would distort the teachings of Scripture to suite their own purposes (2 Peter 3:16). John warned of many deceivers that were in the world, and identified their deception as anti-Christ doctrine (2 John 1:7). Jude dealt very plainly with false teachers, identifying their false teachings, and warned of how God deals with such false teachers (Jude 1:4). Read More →

20 Jul

Evangelism Lessons From the Seventy

EVANGELISM ARTICLE | Joshua Welch | Anderson, Indiana

Luke 10:1-16 contains an account where Jesus had sent out “seventy” of His disciples “into every city and place where He Himself was about to go.” This evangelistic method has some simple pointers that may help us as we try to reach lost souls in our own communities emulating the methods and marching orders of Jesus. Consider a few points to help you in your own evangelistic efforts. Read More →

20 Jul

Israel’s Role In The Divine Plan

BEYOND THE BASICS | Jeremy Diestelkamp | Toronto, Ontario

In today’s religious world, there are plenty of teachings surrounding the nation of Israel that simply are not found in scripture. Some teach that Jews today cannot be saved, contradicting what Paul said in Romans 11:1, while others teach that one day, all Jews will be saved, which is not only a misunderstanding of Romans 11:26, but also a contradiction of how one obtains faith according to Romans 10:17. Some teach that the Jews played the only role in the crucifixion of Christ (discounting the role of the Romans), while others teach that the Jews played no role in the crucifixion by casting aspersions on the accounts given to us in the Gospels. Read More →

17 Apr

The Hall of Faith: By Faith Moses…

EXPOSITORY ARTICLE | Jesse Flowers | Cookeville, Tennessee

Without question or debate, one of the greatest men to ever walk this earth was Moses. How great was this man of God? Consider the following:

The first covenant that God made with Israel is most commonly known as “the Law of Moses” (Josh. 8:31, 32; 23:6; Lk. 2:22; 24:44).
He foretold one of the great Messianic prophecies when he declared: “I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words, which He speaks in My name, I will require it of him” (Deut. 18:18-19). The apostle Peter declared that his prophecy found its fulfillment in Christ (Acts 3:22-26).
The word of God testifies of him saying: “Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth” (Num. 12:3).
The LORD defended His servant after Aaron and Miriam criticized him, with a sharp rebuke saying: “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream. Not so with My servant Moses; He is faithful in all My house. I speak with him face to face, even plainly, and not in dark sayings; and he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?” (Num. 12:6-8).
Consider how the Book of Deuteronomy ends following the death of Moses. “But since then there has not arisen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, in all the signs and wonders which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, before Pharaoh, before all his servants, and in all his land, and by all that mighty power and all the great terror which Moses performed in the sight of all Israel” (34:10-12).
When Jesus was gloriously transfigured on the mountain, Moses (along with Elijah) was sent by God to appear alongside His Son to discuss the Lord’s coming decease (Luke 9:28-36).
Finally, consider that those who have victory over the beast “sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: ‘Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints! Who shall not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. For all nations shall come and worship before You, for Your judgments have been manifested’” (Revelation 15:3-4).

How Christ Relates to the Church: The Chief Cornerstone

CHURCH ARTICLE | Osamagbe Lesley Egharevba | Lagos, Nigeria

“Now, therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being fittted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.” (Ephesians 2:19-22, NKJV)

As seen in our text above, the Bible describes Jesus as the Chief Cornerstone of His Church. This is the church that He promised to build (Matthew 16:18), the church that He purchased with His own blood (Acts 20:28), the church that He is the head of (Ephesians 1:22-23; Colossians 1:18), and the church that He is the Chief Shephard (I Peter 5:4). Read More →