Playlist: Ant (topic)
The Creepy-Crawler Pestilence
Commentary by Martin G. CollinsAnts make you feel like your skin is crawling. Jon Mooallem's article describes crazy ants as a present day creepy-crawler pestilence that helps picture what Pharaoh and the Egyptians experienced with lice, flies, and locusts. This is a plague for a sinful nation. We have not yet experienced the full brunt of God's wrath as a …
The Spiraling Impact of Alien Invasion
Commentary by Martin G. CollinsFire ants are a variety of stinging ants with over 285 species worldwide. Although most fire ant species do not bother people and are not invasive, Solenopsis invicta, known in the U.S. as the red imported fire ant or RIFA, is a viciously invasive pest. They entered the U.S. in the late 1930s aboard cargo ships from tropical …
Self Control
Sermonette bySelf-control helps us to restrain ourselves from harmful lusts of the flesh, including gluttony, intoxication, sex outside of marriage, and drug abuse.
Lessons From the Animals
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughThe ant is an insect that shows many desirable traits which should be emulated. The ant is self-motivated. Having no captain no one has to force it to go to work. Each ant strenuously pursues its own duties in a disciplined organized way. The ant takes care of matters when they need taking care of without procrastination. When …
Consider the Butterfly
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughCreation teaches the orderly mind of God. The butterfly provides valuable analogies to illustrate our conversion and transformation from mortal to immortal.
Preparing for Bad Times (Part 1)
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughBoth the watchman and the one who hears have a responsibility to make preparations for bad times, helping themselves and others through the tough times.
Strategies for Interfacing with Babylon Without Becoming Assimilated (Part Two)
Sermon by David F. MaasThere are three basic causes for discontentment and three strategies to contentment, enabling us to emulate the apostle Paul's content state of mind.
Infected?
Sermonette by Bill OnisickJesus warned His disciples to cease pretending to be better than they are, focusing on the faults of others while whitewashing and justifying one's own.
The Church, One Body
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughGod's call to learn from the ant does not teach us to yield to a hierarchical system, but to participate in a community with the goal of edification.
Be Still!
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughThe end-time proclivity of 'running to and fro' like so many ants is not something of God. He did not intend for us to live in such a fast-paced world.
Preparing for Bad Times (Part 2)
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughTo assume that God will take care of us without our making an effort to provide for ourselves is a dangerous presumption.