Relationship with the World

Desire for companionship could lead one to become unequally yoked with an unbeliever, compromising on God's Law and yielding to the world's culture.

The Beatitudes, Part One: The Sermon on the Mount

The Sermon on the Mount is as vitally important today as when Christ preached it. It contains the way we are to live as God's representatives on this earth.

Check Your Culture

God's people living in America must prioritize God's Commandments over the U.S. Constitution and over American culture. We have a heavenly citizenship.

Christianity Is a Fight! (Part 3)

We must avoid following the negative examples of our forbears. We have been enlisted into spiritual warfare on three fronts: the heart, the world, and Satan.

Abraham (Part Ten)

Lot equivocated with God's instructions, looking for escape clauses, showing him to be self-centered and worldly wise, compromised by the values of the world.

Abraham (Part Nine)

God helps us to overcome our problems in an unraveling process, sometimes taking us back through the consequences of the bad habits we have accumulated.

Facing Times of Stress: Forewarned of Persecution!

Under the best of times, God's people are not immune to persecution. Persecution for righteousness' sake is evidence that God's people have Christ's Spirit.

Matthew (Part Twenty-One)

Laodiceanism

Our love for beauty must be coupled with love for righteousness and holiness. Our relationship with Christ must take central place in our lives, displacing all else.

New Covenant Priesthood (Part Two)

The Sabbath is not a mere ceremonial observance, but identifies God's people as different, and consequently a perpetual irritant to the world.

It IS All About Government

Every form of human government established on this earth has been established as an attempt to declare independence from the sovereignty of God.

Faith (Part Three)

Far from being blind, faith is based on analyzing, comparing, adding up from evidence in God's Word, our own experience, and our calling by God's Holy Spirit.

Who Are We and Where Do We Fit (Part Two)

God has placed us all in the body where it has pleased Him. We dare not imitate Satan by letting self-centered goals eclipse God's purpose.

Ecclesiastes Resumed (Part Twenty-Six)

To keep us secure from the temptations of the world, we must embrace our metaphorical sister, Wisdom, keeping us focused on our relationship with God.