Get Up Early One of the best things you can do to strengthen your eternal life is to do what Abraham did in Gen 19:27.  “And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord”.  Get up early.  Make this your morning routine....

Do Not Turn Away Notice in the Bible when people get saved, they turn to God and away from what they were doing before they were saved.  And they start doing something for the Lord. Acts 26:20, “…that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance”.  1...

Ripple Effect The Lord as been leading me to encourage us to reach our lost friends, neighbors, relatives, and associates with the gospel.  Today he’s given me a message that I call “The Ripple Effect”. When you throw a rock into a pool of water, ripples are formed that emanate...

That Will I Speak When you are given the opportunity to speak to a person or a group about something from the Bible that you’re pretty sure they don’t want to hear, the temptation is to go along with the crowd.  You can be tempted to avoid saying something true...

Kingdoms of God and Heaven In this lesson, we are going to trace the kingdoms of God and heaven all the way from their beginning through their ultimate future merger. We’ll start back in Genesis 1, with creation, where we find a firmament called “Heaven”. Gen 1:1, “In beginning God...

Fight the Good Fight On Memorial Day, the flag is first raised to full-staff and then slowly lowered to half-staff where it remains until noon.  At noon, it is raised to full-staff for the remainder of the day.  When the flag is at half-staff, we commemorate the sacrifice of the...

A True Assessment In 2 Ki 8:7-15, Hazael went to meet Elisha to inquire whether the Syrian King, Benhadad, would recover from his disease. Elisha said, “Go, say unto him, Thou mayest certainly recover”.  Then Elisha added to Hazael, “howbeit the Lord hath shewed me that he shall surely die”....

Whom You Will Follow At some point in your life, you must decide whom you will follow.  If you decide that you want to follow Jesus, then you need to count the cost of being his disciple.  Following Jesus will likely affect your family relationships and friendships, even to the...

Ways To Witness In the Bible we find several ways to witness to your friends.  You can: Show them, 1 Thes 1:6-10.  The Thessalonians had such a testimony that Paul wrote, “in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad”.  The news of your salvation spreads when you have...

The Kingdoms and Religion In this study of the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God, we want to understand where we are today with these kingdoms. This will help us to understand the kingdoms and religion. We have seen thus far that the kingdom of heaven is a...