“Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours. And you are...

“Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised...

“Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen” Idols Verse13 shows our belief, or our faith and complete trust, is the only way to receive God’s gift of eternal life; it reads, “These things I...

“So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.” It: Refers to how people are given God’s salvation, in answer to the question Paul was looking at, of why some...

“Blessed are the pure in heart,For they shall see God.” Context The beatitudes introduce the Sermon on the Mount, in which Jesus addresses the Jews who had been given God’s Law, and had repeatedly...

“These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.” Those in...

Verse 3 ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’  Verse 1 records that “the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah”, and this promise in verse 3...

1 Peter 2:1-2 1 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby Question:...

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying;“Whom shall I send,And who will go for Us?”Then I said, “Here am I!  Send me.” The Nature of God’s Calling – of Isaiah, and Us In our career and worldly...

The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord,And He delights in his way.Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;For the Lord upholds him with His hand. This is a delightful psalm.One...

“Therefore we do not lose heart.  Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.” “the outward man is perishing” As a young man, I used to commute an hour...

"And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him." Verse 16 talks of the word of Christ dwelling in us, and how this is...

“So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.” The problem In chapter 9, Paul deals with the question of how so many of the Jews rejected Jesus; for they were...

“beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.” Mark 3:6 explains why Jesus grouped these two groups together, “Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the...

“For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Question: What does “to live is Christ” mean? How does it work? When we believe in Christ we are baptized, not only with the outward water of...