Rom 6:6 says, “Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him…”.  One of the best ways to deal with those sins that keep coming up is to remember this.  Our old man is crucified with Jesus.   When you were saved, you became a new creature in Christ,...

What Joseph’s brothers did to Joseph was wrong, without a doubt.  They envied him and would have killed him if Reuben had not intervened.  As it is he suffered slavery and prison when they in turn faked his death to convince his father that he was dead. Joseph suffered for...

In 1 Sam 20:3, David told Jonathan, “there is but a step between me and death”.  Saul was relentless in his attempts to kill David.  And David knew that there was but a step between him and death as long as Saul was determined to kill him. David always had...

Ezekiel 39 is a prophecy of the overwhelming destruction of Gog and the gathering of Israel into their own land again. A Prophecy Against Gog, Ezek 39:1-7 The Lord said, “I am against thee, O Gog”, v.1.  Remember he is the chief prince, and his characteristics in Ezek 38 indicate...

In our relationship with the Lord and with others, we must remember that we are the clay.  That’s all we are.  We are made out of a lump of clay, Rom 9:21.  We are the clay. The Lord is the potter, we are the clay, Is 64:8.  You are his...

In Jn 7:15-16, when the Jews questioned Jesus’s knowledge by asking, “How knoweth this man letters, having never learned? Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me”.  Then in Jn 8:28, Jesus explained how he learned his doctrine.  He said, “as my Father...

Jer 17:7-8 says that a man who trusts the Lord will be fruitful as a tree planted by the waters.  When we think of trees planted the waters around here, we think of river bottoms.  The San Antonio river bottom was home to many families of freed slaves after emancipation...

In Prov 31:28, the children of a virtuous woman “arise up, and call her blessed”.  Blessing her is all the more important in the age in which we live.  Today, “There is a generation that… don’t bless their mother”.  You should bless your mother. To bless your mother is to...

I heard about a 9-1-1 call that Avery Shawler made on Labor Day in 2016.  She was climbing alone on Devil’s Bedstead, an 11,865 foot peak in the Pioneer Mountains in Idaho.  She is a certified SOLO Wilderness First Responder and an experienced climber.  Therefore, she carried a first aid...

1 Cor 10:12 says, “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall”.  It’s easy to trip or slip in the Christian life and fall.  Therefore, we are going to examine the areas in which you are most likely to fall, so that you can take heed...