Have you ever noticed that when most people encounter something challenging they fold?  We are a generation of moral and spiritual weaklings. Trouble usually elicits complaints from us.  People whine and fuss when things are tough.  Life’s difficulties don’t go away just because you don’t like them.  What we need...

According to Rom 14:7, we don’t live to ourselves.  Your life affects others.  Therefore, we are commended not to put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in our brother’s way [v.13].  We are not to have a bad affect on others.  But we are also to “follow after...

Yesterday at the Port [Ps.107:23-31] Each week you get to hear a report on the Port Ministry of our church. We started this ministry back in February of 2013. We have been given access to the ships that sail the all the seas of the world, and the men of...

Our text is Ps 37:4, “Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”  Do you ever wonder how God calls individuals into the ministry?  I know how he called me.  My call started with a desire. Perhaps by studying a few passages...

1 Tim 6:17 says, “nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God.”  We are not to trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God.  Riches are deceiving; Matt 13:22 mentions the deceitfulness of riches.  Riches, like sin and religion, deceive you into believing that you can trust...

The past few Wednesday evenings, we have been studying the whole armor of God found in Eph 6:10-18.  We have already discussed the helmet of salvation, which protects your mind in spiritual warfare; the breastplate of righteousness, which protects your heart when you yield to the righteousness of Jesus Christ...

In 2 Thes 3:1, Paul requested prayer from the Thessalonians “that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you.”  In this sense the word course is a moving or motion forward.  So, the course of a river, for instance, is...

In Ecc 8:4, the word of a king is authoritative and very powerful.  In the reign of Ahasuerus, when Vashti refused to come at the king’s command, she was deposed from being queen and she was replaced by Esther.  The decree was made throughout all 127 of his provinces that...

We have been studying each piece of the whole armor of God from Eph 6:13-18.  We have studied the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, and the girdle of truth.  Tonight, we are going to study the shield of faith, Eph 6:16.  The shield of faith is defensive armor...

We have been studying each piece of the whole armor of God from Eph 6:10-18.  Thus far, we have studied the helmet of salvation, which gives us a saved, spiritual, sound, servant’s mind with which to fight in our spiritual warfare.  Then we studied the breastplate of righteousness, which defends...