You Did It in Ignorance
Peter charged his nation with denying, delivering up, and crucifying Jesus. He described Him as being the Holy and Righteous One, the Prince of Peace: their Messiah. These were strong words and Peter “softened” them somewhat in saying, “And now, brethren, I know that in ignorance ye did it, as also your rulers” (Acts 3:17). […]
Acts 15
In the book of Acts we have the history of the early church: how the church began in Acts 2 and its growth and spreading to every creature. The first major problem that the church ran into, besides the physical persecution that arose, was the question of how the Jews and Gentiles were supposed to […]
Active Listening
Two men sit in the same auditorium and listen to the same lessons week after week. One man is growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior (2 Peter 3:18). The other man is double minded and unstable is all his ways (James 1:8). The first man is productive in the work […]
“A Complaint Arose”
“Now at this time while the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint arose on the part of the Hellenistic Jews against the native Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily serving of food” (Acts 6:1). Complaints at church are nothing new. They have been around as long as the church has […]
Abstinence-Only Sex Education in Danger?
With the new administration, critics of abstinence-only sex education will make an aggressive push to cut off federal funding for what they consider an ineffective, sometimes harmful program. Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of American, depicted the federal abstinence-only program as “an utter failure that has wasted more than $1.5 billion” over […]
Abstinence and a Better Life
Fornication is condemned in no uncertain terms in the Bible. The term “fornication” in the New Testament means, among other definitions, sexual contact between two people who are not married. Hebrews 13:4 says, “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.” Fornication is a sin (1 Corinthians […]
A Child’s Ten Commandments to Parents
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A Brother in Christ Is Executed
(Houston Chronicle, 8/2/99) — Ricky Blackmon, set to die Wednesday for the robbery-slaying of a Shelby County man who was stabbed and slashed with a homemade medieval-style sword in 1987. Blackmon, 41, the first of the half-dozen this month to face the lethal needle, says his death, likely to occur Wednesday because all his appeals […]
Is God Laughing at You?
Did you know there is a passage in the Bible that says God laughs at people? In Psalm 2:1-4, we read, “Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying, ‘Let us […]
Making Knowledge Acceptable
Most of us have probably heard and can recall the wise proverb that says, “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger” (Proverbs 15:1). Probably all of us would agree that this proverb is so very true. Our words can either calm the wrath of someone who is upset and […]
