Paul tells us that our true enemies are not people, but rulers in dark places and persons we cannot see. We fight not just Lucifer, but all of his minions as well.

My mom recently passed away after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. She went home to the Lord peacefully one Saturday afternoon not too long ago.

David was known as a great king, a warrior, truly a legend and also as ‘a man after God’s own heart’. He was a humble man and this endeared Him to God.

Which side of God’s memory are you on? In the account we read in 1 Samuel, this is about 445 years or so after the events had happened back in Exodus 17.

God tells us here that ‘His thoughts are not our thoughts’. Our minds are corrupt and sinful and if we listen to them without the truth of the Word of God to help, ...

Going Beyond for my neighbour/brother in the Lord. In Deuteronomy 22, we are asked to look out for the property of our brother.

This Psalm is a response to the incident including Doeg, where he tries to gain favor with Saul by talking about the Priest helping David and then he, Doeg killing the whole town of ...

Many people began the year with new resolutions. They will lose weight, and spend more time with family, friends, and on and on. Most people will stop doing these resolutions in short order and ...

As we get closer and closer to the Christmas celebration there are a lot of ways that the Gospel is being shared. Far too many people only remember the Babe in a manger ...

Often God is portrayed as an angry God, one who is just out to get you and hurt you. But the God of the Bible describes himself here to Moses as one who is ‘slow to anger’, compassionate and gracious.

One of the hardest things to find is people who are committed, all in, so to speak. All around us, we see marriages that are falling apart because ...

This is a passage about life once one is saved. There is a battle between the new man and the old man.

In this passage we have an event in Paul’s life, he dies and is caught up in heaven and there he sees stuff that he cannot put into words.

Peter challenges us to be always ready to give a reason for the Hope that we have in Jesus

On Oct 31st, many of the denominations of churches on earth celebrated the Reformation. This was an event in 1517, where a famous Catholic priest called Martin Luther rebelled against the heresies ...

In some of the previous chapters, if you read chapter 10 and others, the Pharisees accuse Jesus of being possessed by a demon. But Jesus is about to remove all doubt as to who He is.

There are three other accounts that seem just like this one in the other Gospel. But those apply to Jesus as He is preparing for His death.

This past weekend we celebrated Thanksgiving here in Canada. It is always a time of fun, family and good food. But thankfulness is to be an essential part of the Christian’s daily walk.

One of the hardest things to learn as a Christian is that the highest form of worship is obedience. We like rituals because they are ‘easy’.

Paul's writing here lays down some heavy things for us to consider as a rebellious society comes to its natural end as it continues to rebel against God.

It can be difficult to remember that God is in charge; He has everything under control and that He has never been nor ever will be surprised by the things that happen.

In this text, Jesus lays out for us that there is going to be a cost to most of us when it comes to serving the Lord.

We love when we think of God watching over us and taking care of us. Matthew tells us that God takes care of us. But God also sees when we fail and the things we do in secret.

There are about 300 prophecies about Jesus in the Old Testament. Last week we looked at 7 of them in Psalm 22, and today we will look at one in Micah.

God does things that are not normal all the time. He is not governed by the laws of physics or gravity because He invented them. So, He can simply not do them.

The blessing that Priests were to speak to the people about God’s blessings were supposed to be shared by the Jews to the world around them.

Paul is writing here to talk about some of the things that happened to him from people in the churches as he served them. He also talks about how he acted and reacted to these attacks.

His journey from shepherd to king took between 13-20 years. This is how most of us grow on the Lord.

In meeting Boaz, we can see in him the traits of a good man and what to look for.

Jesus told us this in response to the Pharisees calling Him a son of the devil. Jesus makes it clear that Satan’s empire is not a divided kingdom.

The book of Proverbs is Solomon imparting wisdom to his son. In this passage, he highlights a serious situation and the consequences of it.

Paul here is encouraging the members of this local church to new habits; these habits would identify them as a child of God and bring God glory.

One, when used as a number, means supremacy, unique, and no other like it.

The term rebels are often seen negatively. But we will see that many of the apostles were men who rebelled against the legal and even spiritual leaders of the time because ...

Pharaoh was defying God. He thought he was fighting Moses, but God was his enemy. The sad part about it was that it seemed that the people in his court ...

Job may be beginning to show some cracks in his outlook on life. He is feeling the pain of what he thinks is God's abandonment and then the pain of the loss of his support people.

This is the oldest book that we can think was recorded in the scriptures. There is no mention of Abraham or Israel in the book. Lest we think of him to be a fictional character God mentions him ...

The resurrection is the most important day in the history of Christianity. Without it, nothing else matters.

Christians all around the world celebrated Palm Sunday this past Sunday. Many pastors will refer to Zechariah 9:9 as the fulfilled prophecy mentioned by the Gospel writers and rightly so.

We really went back and focused on verses 5-6 again to begin, God promises to ‘never leave us nor forsake us’.

As we get older, at least for me, peace of mind is a real goal. One of the commentaries labelled this chapter as living the ‘good Christian life’.

The apostle Paul in 1 Cor 15: 19, says that if our hope in Jesus is for this life alone, we are most pitiful.

Nehemiah came back under the orders of the king of Persia and he led the people to rebuild the city wall, then to rebuild the Temple and in this chapter, he will enforce some important laws:

Most of us have heard of the story of Robin Hood. He stole from the rich and gave to the poor. We have watched and cheered this movie, but the truth is stealing from the rich is still stealing. No ...

We are told that we will receive a ‘crown of life’ if we endure temptation here in James 1 and as well when we endure tribulation, Revelation 2:10.

When we are born again, we are born into the Family of God. 1 John 3:1, tells us to ‘behold the love that God has for us that we should be called the children of God’.

In this passage, Solomon is passing on wisdom to his son and giving him some practical knowledge about life. It takes no effort to fail. Solomon was showing his son ...

Maya Angelou—‘Courage is the most important of the virtues because without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues consistently’

All too often we can use both the hurts of the past and the successes of the past to hold us back, to make excuses, to hold on to grudges and the like.

One of the most amazing things that we learn about the Messiah is that He is a gentleman.

Everyone will begin today with resolutions—often something to do with weight loss or getting fitter.

God took the storm on for us, that one night a long time ago, a little baby born in Bethlehem came and took sin on for us.

One of the themes that run through the Torah once the Jews leave Israel, is that they are not to forget that they were once slaves in Egypt.

In this chapter, we will explore the idea of slavery. Slavery has been common to all people throughout history.