Teaching by George Lewellyn (Page 64)

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…

C.S. Lewis, in his book The Weight of Glory, spoke of how we as Christians must be ignorant of all the great rewards God has for those who love Him: “…If we consider…the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires, not…

You might have heard the story about the little boy who came home after going to his very first Sunday school class. His mother asked him, “Who was your teacher?” The little boy answered, “I don’t remember her name, but she must have been Jesus’ grandmother, because she didn’t talk about anyone…