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As we continue from last month’s article, examining, biblically, how God speaks to us today, I’d encourage you to review the last article before beginning to read this one. Let me state again that it is important for us to not only have a biblical understanding of how God communicates with us (so we know [...]

Maybe this is a phrase you have heard or maybe even said yourself. But what does this mean? To be sure, there are a variety of possible ways that people use this phrase, or something like it. But it is such a generic phrase that it can be, and I’d say is, easily misused and [...]

“What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.”
1 Cor. 3:5-6
Too many believers are impressed by all the wrong things. It may be the size of church facilities. It may be the [...]

Joy. Tears. Excitement. Adoration. Love… Worship! Lifting of hands. Clapping of hands. Celebration… Victory! Worship!
I was struck a couple of weeks ago by the above expressions of worship. But I didn’t witness them nor experience them in a church service, but while watching the 49ers defeat the Saints in dramatic fashion.
Let me describe for you [...]

“And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature,
One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who [...]

We live in a time of unprecedented opportunity for the gospel. The history of the church in the world is at a crossroads due to globalization and technological advancements in communication. The world is in a constant dialogue and the church has a voice in it. The turmoil in our society due to political and [...]

2.6 10 15
Numbers, that’s all they are. But, you add a few zeros behind them and they suddenly take on a different perspective:
2,600,000,000
10,000,000
15,000
The perspective is a much larger one but, still, they’re just numbers. Add some nouns behind them and they now come alive with a spirit of being:
2,600,000,000 image bearers of God…
10,000,000 little boys [...]

Many who know me know that I am a sports fan. I was raised a sports fan. We watched Monday night football every week while eating dinner on the couch. I attended Cal football games ‘religiously’ with my family for the first 23 years of my life.
I grew up reading the San Francisco Chronicle’s Sporting [...]

From the time we are born, we begin striving after things. First, it is simply things like food, sleep and your mother’s arms. Once we become a bit more mobile, our desires increase to the point where we want whatever is within reach, and a few things that aren’t! Those things that we desire and [...]