Teachings (Page 79)

Benjamin Franklin once noted that “he who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” How true! Excuses often are what keep us from doing the will of God in our lives, because when we repeat them often enough, they become self-fulfilling prophecies. The Israelites were told to go…

One day a lady criticized D.L. Moody for his methods of evangelism in attempting to win people to the Lord. Moody’s reply was “You might be right. How do you do it?” The lady replied, “I don’t do it.” Then Moody responded, “Then I like my way of doing it better.” (Illustrations Unlimited, 178)…

Jay Carney is the current press secretary for President Obama. His role is to serve as the president’s ambassador to the media. Just listening to him talk, one would think that he is in perfect agreement with the president on every issue. But his job is not to express his own opinions, but to speak…

The story was told some years ago of a pastor who found the roads blocked one Sunday morning and was forced to skate on the river to get to church, which he did. When he arrived the elders of the church were horrified that their preacher had skated on the Lord’s day. After the service they held a meeting where the pastor explained that it was either skate to church…

When I was a baby I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I dreamed and talked, time walked And later as I grew older, time flew Soon I shall find while traveling on, time gone! (Author unknown) How true! The older we get the more we realize that time is flying by rapidly. Paul in today’s lesson in 1 Corinthians 7 will remind us that time is short, and because of…

We have been studying recently Paul’s reminder to us that we as born again believers have become the temple of the living God. Someone sent me an email this past week containing the following exhortation that ponders the significance of this great truth: Did you ever give much thought to Mary’s…

When Potiphar’s wife asked Joseph to lie with her, Joseph fled for his life and said, “How can I sin against the Lord and do this thing?” Joseph’s reaction to Mrs. Potiphar’s pass demonstrated that he had a biblical understanding of sexual sin. He understood that when we sin sexually, we don’t just…

“Like the eagle that sat down on the frozen ground to feed upon its prey, and when it would have arisen, found its great wings so frozen to the ice that it could never rise again, but perished beside its costly pleasure, so are Christian men and women who are trifling with forbidden things until…

To get on a show like “People’s Court” or “Judge Judy,” one must agree in advance to accept the word of the judge as final. When we become Christians, we too agree that the Word of our Judge is final. Therefore, we don’t have the privilege to decide what we think is right of wrong, we accept what…

The time was the 19th of May, 1780. The place was Hartford, Connecticut. The day has gone down in New England history as a terrible foretaste of Judgment Day. For at noon the skies turned from blue to gray and by mid-afternoon had blackened over so denselythat, in that religious age, men fell on…