Teach us to Pray

Luke 11:1-4  Introduction: In this passage of scripture, we see Jesus Christ, teaching the disciple to pray. This prayer was not necessarily meant to be prayed verbatim in a repetitious manner however, it is a good prayer to pray. More than just praying this prayer as it stands, it would...

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Guard Against These

Guard Against These Pleasing man. Jn 12:43, 1 Thes 2:4, Gal 1:10. Why even worry about making friends by being a man pleaser.  Men are very hard to please because you aren’t ever certain what it’s going to take to keep them happy.  When you are a man-pleaser, you aren’t...

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Believe the Word, 2 Thes 2:9-12

We are to believe the word of God.  That’s what God expects us to do.  He wants us to believe what he said. What the Bible says about sin we are to believe.  What the Bible says about righteousness and salvation, we are to believe.  Believe the word.  Believe what...

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Bear Fruit

If we do not reproduce ourselves and bear fruit we will die out.  The seed in the good ground “beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”  The seed sown among thorns was choked out and “he becometh unfruitful.”  So, it is evident that the Lord...

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