Scripture Readings for the Lord’s Table

Reading scripture before partaking of the Lord’s supper is an excellent way to assist Christians in the purpose of the supper, which is communion with our Lord. I hope that this brief list of passages will help us better commemorate the greatest event ever known: Psalm 2:6-12 Psalm 16:8-10 Psalm 22:12-18 Psalm 110:1-4 Psalm 118:19-23 […]

“I Don’t Sing Well”

Some make the choice not to sing, even though God commands us to do so. Short and simple, this is disobedience. Disobedience is sin. Ephesians 5:18 says we are to be filled with the Spirit by speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs (v. 19). If we choose not to sing, then […]

7 Things That Will Help You Grow Spiritually

After we become one in Christ, God wants us to develop or grow. Peter exhorted, “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). As we do develop, we are effectively going “on to perfection” (Hebrews 6:1) so that our “love may abound still more and more […]

Jesus’ Sermon on the Bread of Life #2

Were one to casually read John 6 and the apostle’s record of Jesus’ sermon on the “bread of life”, he might overlook the apt analogy the discourse is to the events in which it finds its setting. Jesus had blessed five loaves and two fishes, and with them fed a multitude of 5,000 men beside […]