October 31st is a controversial day among many Christians. This is, of course, because it is the day that shows on many of our calendars...

Last week, we talked about how we end our prayers. The focus is on our attitude when we pray. Are we praying in a spirit of humility and...

I wonder how you end your prayers. Do you end your prayers by simply saying amen? Or are you more like my children who always close their...

Temptation is one of those things that we are both very familiar with and at the same time, we end up using it in bizarre ways. It is...

Debt is a concept that we are all too familiar with today. We have all kinds of ways to get into debt, and many of us have at least some....

When I first joined the Navy and went to boot camp, one of the things that the drill instructors would regularly threaten us with was...

So far, we have looked at the first two petitions in the Lord's Prayer. The first one is that the Lord's name would be hallowed or...

One of the more difficult things for us in the United States to understand is the kingdom language that is found throughout the...

Prayer is, at the same time, the simplest thing and the most difficult for us to understand and be consistant in. Most of us understand...

Last week, we started to talk a little bit about prayer. Specifically the importance of prayer for Christians. Over the next few weeks or...

Prayer is an interesting topic for Christians. It is one of those things that is almost universally understood as a good thing. It is...

One of the first things that you learn about writing a good paper is the basic outline of the introduction, body, and conclusion. The...

There is a strange paradox that people demonstrate all the time. On the one hand, no one likes to be lied to. No one likes to be tricked...

There is a misconception about the Christians in the New Testament Church that comes from Acts 4:32-37. In this passage, the Church is...

The concept of marriage is under constant assault in Western culture. Some of it is obvious, such as the attempt to redefine marriage or...

As we have been looking at the Ten Commandments, one thing that has been true of all of them is that the surface level/cultural...

One of the most characteristically Western values, specifically in the United States, is our distrust for authority in general. To some...

Rest is an interesting thing. It is something that we all know that we need, and yet it is something we never seem to have enough of. In...

I want to start this study today with a question. This is not a specific question about a verse in the Bible, but more a general question...

The Bible truly is an amazing book. No surprises there. It is God's word. One of these amazing things is the way that everything ties...