I’ve heard it said that a church has to be big to be healthy. I can’t find that in my Bible. What I do find is the Lord Jesus saying, “Because strait is the
Somebody you love is far from the Lord, and you keep thinking that if you could just show him one more thing, he’d come around. Look at John 8.
Awana has been part of Wednesday nights in a lot of churches for a long time. Children learn verses, hear Bible stories, and play games, and plenty of parents are
Plenty of folks read John 8:11 as if it ends early: “Neither do I condemn thee: go.” Look at it again in your King James: “Neither do I condemn
Most folks show up with scattered minds and lukewarm hearts, and plenty of them show up on Sunday. We can plan our preaching around that, or we can pray and
Look at what the scribes and Pharisees said in John 8:4: “Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.” Stop on that phrase. In the very
Our grandparents’ churches did eight things we rarely do now. They preached through whole books of the Bible. They kept membership meaningful. They sang hymns heavy with doctrine. They faithfully
John 7 ends with a weird line: "And every man went unto his own house" (John 7:53). Meeting adjourned. These men had just silenced Nicodemus, one of
God told Ezekiel to speak against the shepherds of Israel: "Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves" (Ezekiel 34:2). They ate the fat
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