August 16, 2015
Worship is devotion to God in a manner and with a heart that is acceptable to him. Worship services have changed over the centuries. But has God given any examples and directives for worship in any age? There are some regulative principles to help guide worship for the church.
August 9, 2015
We are saved to declare Christ’s great worth as we worship God together. Part 1 Part 2
May 26, 2015
The book of Ruth is a “bridge” between the time of the local judges, a time of great spiritual and moral apostasy (1:1), and the coming kingship of Israel. God was looking for a man after his heart to sit on the throne of Israel. By God’s grace, Ruth’s loyalty made her a part of […]
April 28, 2015
In the second chapter, Ruth makes good on her promise to Naomi. She promised to leave everything she had ever known about life in Moab to go to Israel with Naomi (1:16–17). Now she is in Bethlehem, trying to provide for herself and her mother-in-law.
April 19, 2015
False teaching has a minimized view of Christ and a magnified view of man. Paul preached the significance of God’s Son.
April 14, 2015
Naomi is left alone: no husband, no sons, no land, and no food. She is in Moab, the place of God’s enemies. The quest for food that led her and her family out of Judah, however well-intentioned it seemed at the time, had come to absolutely nothing.
April 5, 2015
Jesus offered himself as our vicarious substitute and rose as our victorious Savior. We live rejoicing that “if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his” (Rom 6:5).
March 31, 2015
The book of Ruth is about loyalty or “kindness.” In this short book, we see over and over loyalty (or a lack of it). The main character of the book of Ruth is God himself, and the book shows God’s loyalty to Naomi, Ruth, Boaz, Elimelech, and the entire nation of Israel!
March 29, 2015
On this Palm Sunday let’s worship the overlooked Jesus who became our Savior and will return as the world’s King.
March 15, 2015
Isaiah does not try to conceal God’s righteous wrath, but instead claims that vengeance and fury are his alone.