The apostle Paul addressed those spreading false teaching who have swerved from rightly using the law, thinking that they have an understanding, and teaching speculations in vain discussions. At the core, these teachers have drifted from sound doctrine by lacking certain qualities. This message examines these qualities as the aim of the Apostles' charge.

How you view your body affects how you use your body. The Christian view of the body is that God meant the body to glorify God. Furthermore, using one's body for sexual immortality affects your commitment to Christ. The Bible instructs us to flee from sexual immortality. Furthermore, this message expands on how God gave marriage for those tempted by sexual sins.

Solomon urged his listeners to remember their Creator in the days of their youth before the evil days come. This message references research that reveals when youth begin to question and some leave their faith. The disciple-making of the church must include the children and students directing them to the only lasting hope in Jesus Christ and faith by a reasonable view of God.

A man has taken his father's wife, and the church at Corinth did not respond to this open sin by someone having the name of brother in Christ. However, the apostle Paul pronounced judgment in his absence and corrected the church for allowing this to continue. First Corinthians 5 and 6 challenge Christians to stand against continued sin and to judge one another within the church rather than before unbelieving judges.

Should Christians act as citizens in this world? This message examines a number of scriptures to find how Christians are to live as citizens of heaven and of one's nation. How will you stand by faith in Christ before the public arena?

Every profitable trade requires training. Likewise, Christians need training to grow. Believers are capable of growing to maturity. While facing his death, Peter wrote some final words to urge Christians to keep growing because of the dangers that face them, so he revealed how to supplement one's faith.

The perception of church leaders often causes division rather degrades or puffed up. The apostle Paul presents the apostles as servants, stewards of God's Word, and last among all. They endured many trials unlike many other teachers influencing the church. For this reason, Paul taught the church not to go beyond what is written in judgment of them. The Scriptures are fully sufficient.

Jesus taught of the coming age of true worship not in any specific place but in spirit and truth. This message draws from John 4 to understand worship in spirit and truth. Jesus offers God's gift of eternal life as He did when He sat beside Jacob's well in Samaria and requested that a Samaritan woman give Him a drink. Jesus kept leading her to the truth that He was the Messiah and now God seeks true worshipers.

GARLAND BASFORD - This message is a survey of Jesus's prayer life through the Gospel of Luke. Jesus's life of prayer is apparent at essential points in His ministry. In Luke, Jesus taught the example prayer that the believer should want to learn to pray as Christ commands.

Jesus sang with His disciples before going to the Garden of Gethsamane on the night of His betrayal. Psalm 22 prophesied of the Messiah singing and glorifying God in the congregation. As Christ sang, singing is an essential behavior of the Christian faith. As Christians are priests in God's temple --- the church, Christians offer spiritual offerings of praise as the fruit of the lips. This message draws points on the purpose of congregational singing as commanded in the Scriptures.