Women Preparing for Marriage, Part I Prov. 31:10-29

  Women Preparing for Marriage, Part I Prov. 31:10-29 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Women preparing for marriage often concern themselves more with finding a man and making wedding plans, coming up with the right invitations, registering for their gifts, finding the right photographer and florist and so forth than with preparing...

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Comforting the Grieving, Job 2:11-13

What can you do to comfort the grieving? Just sit with them – Job 2:11-13 – Job’s friends did more by just sitting down with him quietly than they did by trying to talk him through his situation.  It’s hard to know what you should or should not say; you...

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Men Preparing for Marriage, Part II Prov. 12:2

Men Preparing for Marriage, Part II Prov. 12:2 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Whether you are a man preparing for marriage or whether you are already married, this lesson will do you some good.  Men don’t often think about preparing for marriage; they think about the woman they are going to marry. ...

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Men Preparing for Marriage, Part I Eph. 5:25

Men Preparing for Marriage Eph. 5:25 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Men preparing for marriage should be much more concerned with preparing themselves than with finding a woman.  As a man, here are some practical and spiritual things that you can do to prepare for your marriage, even long before you...

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Especially for Men Titus 2:2

Especially for Men Titus 2:2 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When you read through the Bible looking for something especially for men, you cannot miss Titus 2:2.  It is addressed to “the aged men.”  The qualities of men listed in this verse must be taught.  At first glance you may not know...

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Your Life is a Vapor, Jas 4:13-17

In Jas 4:26, James wrote, “For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”  From Jas 4:13-17, we should glean some important truths from this thought provoking question and the comments James gives in reply.  We see from this...

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Some are Fallen Asleep, 1 Cor 15:6

In 1 Cor 15:6 most of the over five hundred brethren who saw Jesus after his resurrection were still alive when Paul wrote 1 Corinthians.  However, Paul said, “some are fallen asleep.”  Our dear brother, Benny Craft, fell asleep yesterday.   His race is over – Heb 12:1 – we...

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The Death of His Saints, Ps 116:15

Ps 116:15 says, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.”  The Psalmist didn’t say death is precious.  Death is horrible.  Death came from Adam’s disobedience [Rom 5:12].  God remedied our problem with death through the death of his own Son [Heb 2:14-15].  In Is...

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Benefits of Following the Word, Ps 119:168

Last Wednesday night we saw from Ps 148, that everything in the universe is governed by the words of God.  Likewise, you should allow the words of God to govern all areas of your life.  All of your paths, your convictions, your responsibilities, your privileges, your instructions, and your duties...

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Put on the New, Eph 4:21-24

In Eph 4:22-24, we find one of the best passages on how to live the Christian life.  Before we were saved, we did everything “according to the deceitful lusts,” [Eph 4:22] of the old man.  After we get saved, we are suddenly supposed to do things differently.  And that can...

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