Jesus’ message to the chief priests and Pharisees was because Israel did not take the kingdom of God and spread it, He would give it to the Gentile world. This prophecy became true in the Book of Acts. Because the

Joseph had many great characteristics that one can talk about, but one of the greatest that God talks about was his ability to prosper at whatever he did. When he worked for his dad, he prospered. Now, it could easily have been said that he prospered because his

When God says to get wisdom, He is not suggesting that you get it, but He is commanding that you get it. Life is filled with many decisions, decisions that often we don't know what to do. The fool is the one who makes decisions without the wisdom to make them, and the fool suffers the consequences of

Abram was one decision away from living a nominal life, but in making the right decision, he discovered God’s richest and greatest blessings for his life. The difference for Abram was that he was willing to

In every church and throughout your life, you will come across many people who are good at talking, but the words they speak will hurt you and your church greatly if you listen to them. Many people have hurt a church because of their ability to say things that others believe, only to

One of the great causes of marital squabbles is the inability to leave the past to obtain a victory today. Many marriages that have problems find themselves always using the past to

We often look at this verse to teach the importance of being faithful to church, which is a correct interpretation of this verse. However, God did not stop at commanding us to

God’s sovereignty in your life will always be seen in the storms that you face. Though we do not like the storms, storms are often the way that God shows His power in your life to make out of you the jewel that He intends for you to

There are two types of hardness we face in life. We will either endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, or we will endure self-made hardness that we brought upon ourselves because of our lack of relying on God for

One requirement of a deacon is that they rule their children and their own houses well. This command to the deacons is really a command to all men. Deacons are chosen from the men in the church, which means that men are

What is it that God expects from the believer? Let’s face it, we all want to please God, and in order to please Him, we must know what He expects from us. We know that living by faith pleases God. Hebrews 11:6 teaches, But without faith it is impossible to

If we were to try and identify what made Daniel great, there would be many answers to this question. His walk with God was certainly one of the main factors that made him great. His stand for right was another factor that made him a

God talks about the future temple to be built for the end times. As Ezekiel explains this temple, he says that he was brought into a chamber that was over against the separate place. The separate place was a

There are two types of works that a man will pastor. He will either start a church to be the pastor of that church, or he will take a dying church and try to make it live again. A church plant starts with

The ministry gets blamed for many things, but it is not the ministry’s fault that a sinner’s sin gave a rebel a reason to rebel. Paul said we should be careful about not giving people a reason to blame the ministry for our

God uses a parable of a lioness with her whelps to teach a valuable lesson on dealing with disappointment. This lioness took one of her whelps and trained it to devour prey and to be

In any ministry that aggressively goes after the lost and is a growing ministry, you will find those within the ministry competing with each other to the detriment of the work of that ministry. Paul saw this cancer in the church of Corinth. The powerful personalities that

Several times in the first chapter of Ezekiel, Ezekiel said that he went whithersoever the spirit was to go. The spirit that Ezekiel followed was the Spirit of God. One time in chapter 2, Ezekiel went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit. You will notice the difference between Ezekiel following

When God chose to judge Egypt, He did not unload the whole wagon of wrath upon them; instead, God said He would correct thee in measure. God was saying that though Egypt deserved to be punished, they did not deserve to

There are two types of people in Acts 27 that show the two types of people in life. The first type of person is the one who needs circumstances to make them cheerful and happy. The men of the ship were despondent and