You have all heard the expression it is like heaven on earth. Maybe you have used it after a fine meal or after a great vacation ended or a gathering with friends or family you said it was amazing. It was like heaven on earth. We don’t mean that...

Satan desires to desensitize Christians to the heinousness of sin. He wants you to stop mourning over sin and start enjoying it. Impossible? Many who once thought so have fallen prey to its power. It usually doesn’t happen all at once. In fact, the...

The White Throne Judgment will be nothing like our modern court cases. At the White Throne, there will be a Judge but no jury, a prosecution but no defense, a sentence but no appeal. No one will be able to defend himself or accuse God of...

Do the outsiders in our community think of our church buildings as houses of prayer? Are all nations welcomed there? Do we as church members flee to church on Sundays in an attempt to cover up our sins? Do we “go to church” in order to maintain our...

For many centuries, man has dreamed of a “golden age,” a “utopia” in which the human race will be free from war, sickness, and even death. Men have tried to achieve this goal on their own and have failed. It is only when Jesus Christ reigns on David’s...

The passage is a polemic against the proud, represented by the Pharisee. At the center of this pride is personal religious arrogance. Jesus speaks against religious snobbery that views oneself as more righteous than another. On the contrary...

The great hope of the Christian faith is the physical return of Jesus Christ to the earth. We call it the "Second Coming". However, many Christians are surprised to discover that the Jesus that returns is no longer the suffering servant of...

We have a choice when crisis or hardship hits. We can either pray or we can lose heart. If you are praying, you will not lose heart. If you are losing heart, I would dare to say you are probably not praying.

When Babylon fell on the earth, the command was given in heaven, “Rejoice over her!” (Rev. 18:20) and what we read in this section is heaven’s response to that command. The word alleluia is the Greek form of the Hebrew word hallelujah, which means...

If you love the Lord, you will love lost people. Because God cares about the lost. God cares about those that don’t know Christ. So we are not to look at them with disdain or hatred or anger. We are to look at them with compassion and concerning...