How much do you know about your grandparents? Great-grandparents? How about your great-great-great-great grandparents? Unless you actively engage in genealogy, you’re probably like me and know little to nothing about the generations that came before you. I think the main reason is that we have very short life spans! Before the flood, people lived a …
Are You Building Towers?
Genesis 11:1-9 describes a key event in Old Testament history. The time frame is two generations after Noah and his family exited the ark into a world washed clean. God told these eight individuals it was now their responsibility to repopulate and govern the earth: As for you, be fruitful and multiply; populate the earth …
Are You A Busybody?
Are you a busybody? 2 Thessalonians 3:10-13 – For even when we were with you, we used to give this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either. For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like …
You CAN Have Everything You Ever Could Want
Have you noticed that it is human nature to always be striving for something? That there is an inherent longing inside of us that tells us we need to do more, be more, or act more a certain way? “I wish I could…” “If only I had…” “When I get…” “One day I will have…or …
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Don’t Miss The Mark In Your Anger
Is it a sin to get angry? Is all anger sinful? Good questions to contemplate as we read Paul’s admonition in Ephesians 4:26: Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. What is anger? The Greek word used here is orgizō and is only used eight …
The Way Of The Word 