Better Than Rubies
What can money buy? Houses, cars, clothes, food—physical things. What can money not buy? Spiritual things. What the world values, it...
Help in Your Trials
When the Lord Jesus died on the cross for our sins, He suffered more than any other man ever could suffer. Psalm 22, among many other...
In All Labour There Is Profit
Solomon records in Proverbs 14:23 these inspired words: “ In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury...
Weak but Strong
The Apostle Peter followed the Lord faithfully during Christ’s earthly ministry. Like the other apostles, Peter had his problems; he had...
Churches Start Churches
Churches start churches. The church at Jerusalem started many churches in Judea, Samaria, and even north in Syria. They also started the...
Serve the Body...of Christ
The church is a body: a living, functioning organism that accomplishes the will of God, Christ being its Head, and each baptized believer...
What Is in Your Heart?
Hezekiah was a good king of Judah, a faithful believer in Jehovah. He did right in the sight of the Lord (II Chron. 29:2). For instance,...
Objective Delight
Romans 7:22 teaches us that the inward man of the believer delights in the law of God. Unsaved people might claim that they delight in...
The Cure for Jealousy
I Samuel 17 records the monumental story of when David killed Goliath. Afterward, King Saul talked to David. After that the Bible tells...
You Can Know for Sure! Who Can Know?
God wants people to know for sure that they are saved. Although many deny that a person can know, the Bible says that we can. The Apostle...
Why We Are Pre-Trib
The Tribulation Period is a seven-year span of great judgment on the earth. The Bible calls it the time of Jacob’s trouble (cf. Jer....
Be a Servant; Don't Act a Servant
One of the sermons preached at the preaching conference in Wyoming came from Philippians 2:5-8, where the Apostle Paul tells us that the...
50 Years of Prevailing
Recently, I traveled to Oak Harbor, WA to take part of the 50th Anniversary celebration for Bible Baptist Church. For a church to begin...
Like a River Glorious
The English hymnwriter, Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879), was vacationing in the south part of Wales in 1876 when she caught a severe...
Iron Sharpeneth Iron
The Lord intends believers to live the Christian life connected to each other. We do this in the church. Since the church is the body of...
Marriage of the Lord
A week ago Friday, Mr. Joseph Watkins and Miss Katrina Stager became Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Watkins. The ceremony beautifully and gracefully...
God's Sovereignty over Life
One week ago, President Trump was shot during a campaign rally in Butler, PA. The bullet grazed his ear, but had his head turned at a...
Believer's Baptism
When a person receives Christ, the Bible teaches that he is to make known publicly his salvation through baptism. Baptism does not save....
If You Want to Know,...
As Jesus began the third year of His public ministry, Luke 11 tells us that He was praying in a certain place. Jesus often got alone to...
Study the Bible--Literally
When studying the Bible, the first thing we want to know is the meaning of the text. Unless we know the meaning, we will not know what a...