Scott LaPierre Ministries

James 1:3 and 1 Peter 1:7 describe trials as tests that reveal the genuineness of faith. This message considers how testing proves faith to us and to others, while distinguishing trials from the assumption that every hardship is punishment for personal sin.

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How can a wife encourage her husband's spiritual leadership? This teaching considers supportive words and actions, patience with differences in leadership style, and why a husband's heart for God matters more than matching someone else's personality or approach.

Read the full teaching: https://www.scottlapierre.org/how-to-encourage-your-husband-to-lead-spiritually/

God’s grace to others can expose jealousy and discontent in our own hearts. We gladly receive undeserved kindness, yet may resent it when someone else receives what we think they have not earned.

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God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac to test Abraham’s faith and to foreshadow the sacrifice of Christ. He stopped Abraham before Isaac was killed and provided a ram in his place. Why did God ask Abraham to sacrifice Isaac?

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Psalm 100:2 says, “Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing!” This verse doesn’t just tell us to serve the Lord, it tells us HOW to serve the Lord: with gladness. And it is evident the older son in the parable of the prodigal son was not serving the Lord with gladness. Perhaps we don’t always serve the Lord with gladness, so we can learn from him.

Read the full teaching: https://www.scottlapierre.org/serve-the-lord-with-gladness/

Being imitators of God means reflecting His character in the way we treat others. Ephesians 5:1 calls believers to imitate Him as beloved children. The father’s welcome in the parable of the prodigal son helps us understand what that looks like when a sinner repents.

Read the full teaching: https://www.scottlapierre.org/be-imitators-of-god-the-father/

First Corinthians 7:1–6 addresses physical intimacy within marriage and the responsibilities of husbands and wives toward each other. This teaching considers intimacy as a gift from God, mutual care in marriage, and the passage's teaching about abstinence by agreement.

Read the full teaching: https://www.scottlapierre.org/biblical-intimacy-in-marriage/

A type of Christ is an Old Testament person, event, practice, object, or institution that God used to foreshadow Jesus and His saving work. The Old Testament contains many shadows and types that point forward to Christ, while the New Testament reveals the greater substance and reality they anticipated.

Read the full teaching: https://www.scottlapierre.org/shadows-and-types-of-christ-in-the-old-testament/

We understand the father being glad the son returned home, but what father would give his son the best robe, a ring, shoes, and the huge celebration after living so rebelliously? The son didn't deserve any of this, but grace is when sinful people receive favor they don't deserve. Romans 5:20 says, "The law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace increased all the more." The son's sin increased, but the Father's grace increased more.

Read the full teaching: https://www.scottlapierre.org/where-sin-increased-grace-increased/

Genesis 2:18 (ESV) says, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” God created marriage in part because the man needed the companionship, help, and complementary strengths of a wife. See the biblical meaning of helper, and read this material from Your Marriage God’s Way to explore why it was not—and still is not—good for man to be alone.

Read the full teaching: https://www.scottlapierre.org/it-is-not-good-for-man-to-be-alone/