How can we teach children the true meaning of Christmas based upon what the Bible teaches about the coming of Christ? What Christmas is Not Christmas has become so commercialized that many people dread its coming. People go into debt to buy things to impress people with gifts they may not need and the focus is on getting rather than what we received two thousand years ago. One person told me that if you rearrange the letter in Santa’s name... Read more
Here are 7 Bible verses that speak about simplicity. Second Corinthians 11:3 “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.” Sometimes we make the gospel so complicated that even adults can’t understand it but it is really so simple that a child can know it. The gospel has been described as so deep that a theologian could drown in it... Read more
Here are my top 7 Bible verses about the care of animals. Proverbs 12:10 “Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.” I have a close friend who is an animal rescuer of abandoned dogs and another very close friend who rescues cats, many of whom are dumped illegally in the middle of nowhere during the coldest parts of the winter and hottest parts of the summer. They are... Read more
God commands us to keep and care for the earth but God’s edict to have dominion over the earth doesn’t mean to have complete domination and exploitation of it. Genesis 2:15 “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and keep it.” God gave mankind a command and told him that he must tend or keep the garden. The Hebrew word for “tend” or some translations say “keep” it is “shamar”... Read more
The Bible speaks a lot about hardships so what are 7 of the top Bible verses about hardship? Second Corinthians 12:10 “For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” It was for the sake of taking the gospel to the world that Paul endured many hardships, no one would debate that. He suffered through calamities, persecutions, insults, and even beatings, torture, imprisonment, stoning,... Read more
The Bible is clear that God is no respecter of persons and salvation has never been about race but always about grace. Acts 10:34-35 “So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.” Peter is telling his audience that God shows no partiality with regard to nations because anyone who fears God and does what is right,... Read more
What is revival? What can learn from the Bible about revival so that we can apply these verses to our life today? Psalm 85:6 “Will you not revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?” The psalmist is asking God for revival so that once again the people can rejoice in God. Where does revival begin? If you are not a Christian, you can’t even be revived because you must first be “vived” or made alive in Christ... Read more
The Bible contains many verses about the idea of regret so what are my top 7 Bible verses regarding regret? Philippians 3:13 “Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.” Who among us can say that we have no regrets at all?... Read more
What 7 Bible verses tell us about morality and what can we learn from them? First Corinthians 15:33 “Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.” This is spoken of in the Book of Proverbs too. Whoever we run with we become like so we can’t associate with people of bad morality without it rubbing off on us as we tend to become like those who we have as friends, for good or bad. Mark 7:20-23 “What comes out... Read more
What top 7 Bible verses speak the most about modesty? Why are they important to the believer in Christ? Modesty Is… The word modesty only appears twice in the ESV Bible; in 1st Timothy 2 and in 1st Corinthians 12 but we can use similar words to essentially find the same meaning. Modesty could be called humility because by definition modesty is holding to an unassuming or moderate belief in the estimation of one’s own abilities or achievements and showing... Read more
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