As I concluded last week's sermon on Samson, I was struck by the coincidence (if it was a coincidence) that the supporting scriptures that I found for my three lessons for second generation Christians all came from the book of I …
"And who is my neighbor?" the lawyer asked Christ (Luke 10:29). His question presses heavily on us today. It does so because of the undeniable fact of our global village. That our world of jetted transportation and celled communication …
Despite the many millions who profess to be Christians in this world, throughout most of its existence, the church of God has been small and scattered. Jesus calls His disciples a "little flock" in Luke 12:32, and though the early …

(23) Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
(24) And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting.
We have to ask God to do the same thing in our lives, especially during the time before Passover. Human nature is blind to problems in our character, so we have to ask God to show us the things that we cannot see. A main characteristic …
Jesus Christ’s teaching in Matthew 11:16-19 expresses a deep emotional appeal, centered around a cry from the children for an audience: But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their companions, and saying: We played the flute for you, And you did not dance; We mourned to you, And you did not lament. For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, “He has a demon.” The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, “Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!” But wisdom is justified …
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