From generation to generation, history, vocabulary (word definitions and usage), education (or a lack of education), philosophy, new scientific discoveries, and technological advances all contribute to change the future and the history of the way we think and develop our intellectualism. Having said this, there is and always has been three basic systems of human perception: Empiricism – reality through…
UNDERSTANDING DIVINE DESIGN – GOD’S PLAN FOR YOU AND ME Please open the Word of Truth to Isaiah 58:11. The pastor-teacher’s primary function is to communicate God’s Word to the congregation. God’s Word is Divine Viewpoint. The Holy Spirit uses God’s Word to transform the believer’s human viewpoint to divine viewpoint. As we learn God’s Word, we also learn how…
Our primary function as believers is spiritual growth through the inhale and the exhale of God’s Word (studying and meditating upon His Truths, then applying what we learn to every detail of life) and its constant application to the details of life. When hardships, difficulties, and even suffering cause us undue pressure or pain, we are to draw upon God’s…
Inspiration from God is subtle, but sometimes it can be a wonderful experience. Have you ever considered keeping track of your meditations? You must be on guard to recognize God’s inspiration, against your own desires. Write down your meditations and keep them as a sort of ‘diary’ of your personal and quiet walk with the Lord. Review them often. Compare…
A Brief Summary Commentary “Choose you this day whom you will serve (follow), as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” – we will follow wisdom. Think on this: Believing is intellectual. Wisdom is respecting God. Please turn to Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes is, in part, a biographical documentation of a king who had everything, but wanted more –…
This study on the subject of dying grace. It is written for those who may be facing their own mortality – we all will, sooner or later. When you actually come face to face with your own mortality, life takes on a totally new perspective and death becomes more real to you than ever before. But, when confronted with death,…
“He must increase, I must decrease” John 3:30-36. Every consideration that appeals to the ambitions of men is offered by the world, but sic transit gloria mundi (thus passes away the glory of the world). As we begin our study ask yourself – am I decreasing? What about promotion or success – how are you handling it? If success and…
When it comes to a clear understanding and thorough presentation of Bible Prophecy, no scholar has produced a better resource than John F. Walvoord, in his book entitled: “Every Prophecy of the Bible,” Chariot Victor Publishing, a division of Cook Communications, Colorado Springs, Colorado. WOTM recommends this important book on prophecy for every believer and pastor/teacher. The WOTM Statement of…
When the believer really loves and appreciates the Lord, the believer is thirsty for God’s Word. The Bible is “the Mind of Christ” (2 Corinthians 2:16). If you want to think like Christ, then you need to know the Mind of Christ. The Mind of Christ is divine viewpoint. As a guideline, thirty minutes with an open Bible is imperative…
This brief look at compassion and forgiveness is critical to our relationships and learning to walk in Christ. This is only the first of many studies in compassion and forgiveness as we walk through fields of grace together. Shame and hurt, shock and regret, remorse and denial, suffering and pain, are common experiences of life. We all have the same…
THE GRACE PLACE During our Lord’s incarnation, Christ was indwelt by God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. Jesus, as a child, learned God’s Truths as they were written in His time. Our Lord walked His path through fields of grace and completed the Father’s plan for the salvation of mankind. The Holy Spirit directed Christ’s footsteps (Acts 10:38)….
What is truth? Is the Bible God’s Word? How can we know with certainty? What did Jesus say about the Old Testament? The answers to these questions are the most important answers ever given to mankind. The information to follow is either absolute or a total fraud. You decide. And remember your future is at stake. You are responsible for…
Are you good enough to get to Heaven? Well, how good is good enough, and who determines that? What’s the golden standard of good? If you can be good enough to please God, why did God send His Son to the cross to die in your place if you can just “do it yourself?” Many people believe that doing good…
Satan was handed the keys to this world by Adam and Eve when they sinned. They had authority over the world and everything within it. At the moment of their disobedience, control of the world was handed over to satan, the great deceiver. Bad things happen because this is the devil’s world. He holds the keys now, not us. “Why…
The doctrine of forgiveness may be defined as: letting go of resentment; excusing a guilty person of trespass; release from payment; forgetting an offense, never throwing it back on the person again; and finally, it means loving those who mock us, bully us, talk about us, and malign us behind our backs. Forgiveness is contrary to our nature – we…
“Spiritual compassion is not measured by how well we expose another person’s sin issues, but by how well we stand with them to resolve their issues, gently.” – C. S. Craig Define Compassion in two words: “Jesus wept” (John 11:35). “Jesus wept” says it all. Jesus in true humanity was so compassionate (Matthew 9:36; 14:14; 15:32; 20:34; 23:37; Mark 1:41)….
INTRODUCTION God pre-designed the plan of grace before the foundation of the world; Jesus Christ executed the plan; the Holy Spirit reveals the plan through Bible doctrine to mankind. The word grace and its eternal meaning were forever exalted by the incarnation of Jesus Christ in hypostatic union (which means both God and man simultaneously). The one and only true…
Right after birth, the new born baby soon learns that crying will get it what it wants. Since it cannot talk, crying is also the baby’s only way to communicate that it is wet, or hungry, or something is wrong. When over-sensitive parents overreact to every little peep from their precious possession, they soon learn that that was a mistake….
The late Chester McCalley, a linguist of the original languages and expository teacher, in his book entitled The Foundations of Our Great Salvation wrote: “The more Grace is used, the more it increases.” He went on to say: “Appropriating God’s Grace is like having your bank account increase every time you withdraw money.” In John 1:16, grace is exchanged for…
There are two wills in life: “I will” and “God’s will.” When we become more important than God, “I” dominates our thinking. When God is more important than self, God dominates our thinking and our lives. “Self is god of our life or God is God of our life. It’s one or the other.” – C. S. Craig C. S. Lewis…