Salvation offered to all.

“So Peter opened his mouth and said: ‘Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.'”        (Acts 10:34-35)   The 10th chapter of the Book of Acts is one...

Giving as Worship.

“For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord, . .  .”    (2 Corinthians 8:3 ESV) Paul praised the example of the Macedonian Christians in their giving to God. These believers were a good example of the...

The Marks of the True Believer.

  “In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”           (1 John 4:10-11 ESV) John warns his readers of the dangers of...

Abiding in Christ.

“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5 ESV) In the Old Testament, Israel was known as the vineyard of the Lord (Isaiah 5:1-7). Yet Israel proved...

We love as God loves us.

“By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.”  (1 John 3:16). God calls us to love Him by loving our brethren in thought, word and deeds  because He wants us to follow in His footsteps. In...

Speak with boldness.

“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”          (Acts 4:12) In the early days of the Church, persecution by the Jewish religious leaders began because the number of Christians was...