The church describes in three pictures, as a kingdom, a family and as a building. Practical lessons for believers drawn from these three metaphors.

The dramatic first verse of the Bible opens with no apology for God but a simple declaration of his existence and of his creative work. Here is the the beginning of time, space and matter. Also, the Triune Godhead, a biblical response to the gap theory and the new creation.

A question that God put to the prophet Elijah, What doest thou here, Elijah-, is a question that He asks each one of us. What are we doing with our life- Are we using this probationary time to seek and find the Lord- What does the Bible say is the purpose of life-

In this passage, Paul shows the great disadvantage the Gentiles were in in their unconverted state, a life without Christ and without God. And how saved Jews and saved Gentiles come together in one brand new entity, the church.

The author of Hebrews underscores the excellence of our Saviour by highlighting the key importance of our Saviour in a strange text, Psalm 8. How is this proper to apparently inject His person into this majestic description of God's goodness to man's tiny insignificance- What clues are there in the text, that this is the Holy Spirit's exact and original intention- What are the 3 missing pieces in the jigsaw-

Here is how God uses crises to bring us to seek him, and how personal trust in Christ is of primary importance in obtaining forgiveness and a transformed life.

Here is described the powerful forces and strong influences, externally and internally, which controlled us in our unconverted state. And how by God's grace alone we were saved from it. What made him do it- His great love for us.

The last acts of Elisha hold wonderful and instructive lessons for believers including the commission to engage in spiritual warfare, and the need not to pause in it. Also, how Elisha is a type of Christ, and how life comes to us through the atoning death of Christ.

Christ in word, life and action demonstrated that his mission was to save sinners not the righteous. Here are some common misconceptions regarding sin and sinners, and the kind of worship that God requires and a definition of what it is to be a true Christian.

The need for believer's to increase in their knowledge of the Lord and to perceive clearly and increasingly their assured hope of heaven, the riches of their inheritance, and the power available to them to live a sanctified and victorious life.