The beginning of a new year is often a time of reflection and rededication for people. We reflect on the past year, taking inventory of our achievements and failures, which is often followed by at least a mental outline of what we hope to accomplish in the coming year. Such musings are not uncommon to most of us. In fact, …
The Real Christmas Story
The Christmas story is important because the birth of Christ is important. The traditional story of His birth contains many errors, and presents a cold, hard, and lonely picture about the circumstances of his birth. This expository teaching explores and reveals a deeper, more accurate understanding of the customs, time and place, and other details that truly make the birth …
The Birth of Christ
If any record has been masked or misunderstood by tradition, it seems to be the birth of Jesus Christ. It is amazing to me how many traditions mask the birth of Jesus Christ and what the Bible says about it. Meanwhile, God, through Scripture, has been trying to break through to us to teach us what really happened in the …
Enthroned at God’s Right Hand
God’s Word tells us of Jesus, who as a servant humbled himself to God’s will, was crucified, buried, resurrected and seated with God at his right hand, far above all principalities, power, mights and dominions. He was given a name which is above all names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, both in heaven and on …
Jesus Our Sanctification
As the people of God, we are set apart by virtue of the holy spirit the Lord gave us. In this world of darkness, we are His shining lights. But along with this sanctification given to us, we are called to the sanctified walk. God is light, and we are instructed to walk in the light as He, God, is …
Eternal life
One of the most wonderful promises that God makes in his Word for all for whom Christ is their savior is eternal life. The Book of Titus tells us that our very faith rests upon this hope which God, who does not lie, promises us. Such blessed assurance. Imagine – eternity with God, with our Lord and with our brethren. …
Jesus Messiah
Jesus Messiah. Jesus, God’s Anointed. Jesus Christ. Did you know that Christ is not Jesus’s last name? It’s not, yet for the majority of Christians, this is the unwitting assumption. The fact is, Christ, Christos in the Greek, means what Meshiac in the Hebrew means – ANOINTED. Jesus is God’s Anointed. He was sent to carry out God’s plan for …
Agency
In the ancient cultures of the Middle East, there was a concept we know as Agency. The central notion of agency is this: that one person would send another as a representative to carry out his bidding with all the authority of the sender. In this teaching we look at this concept in the relationship between God and his son …
Biblical Servitude
In our contemporary world, the idea of Service often has a bad connotation. People tend to associate it with diminished value and a lack of self-worth. But from a scriptural perspective, a person simply will not go far with the Lord unless he or she learns first to be a servant. From the prophet delivering the Lord’s message, to the …
The Walk of Humility
The Bible teaches, “Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Pridefulness, also called self-righteousness, is the affliction of the natural man and carnal Christian alike going back to Adam’s rebellion. “Better to be lowly in spirit,” scripture continues, “and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud.” Pride’s only antidote to Pride is Humility. …