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Purpose Greater Than Life Itself

Is that for which you will live your life actually greater than your life? Your life is short. Sure, it’s 70 to 100 years, more or...

Fellowship With Sister Churches and Their Members

There are several passages in the Bible that teach fellowship between churches. There are enough to know that, first, fellowship did...

"Thy Mother": Mother's Day

The two words “thy mother” are found together four times in the book of Proverbs, which mentions motherhood quite a few times. Proverbs...

Motivation for Work for the Lord through His Church

Many different passages in the Bible in several varied places give motivation to live for God and not for yourself or the world. We’re...

The Church Age

We live in what some have called “the church age.” This is a major theological designation for this era or time. It is also fitting,...

Psalm 110 and the Church

Psalm 110 is the most quoted passage in the New Testament. The Apostles obviously thought highly of it. Hebrews may be an exposition of...

Apostasy

Some of you reading may not be very familiar with the term, “apostasy.” You might hear me use the term. You may have heard the word,...

The Resurrection and Easter

The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the pivotal, most essential point of Christianity. Easter could be the celebration of it, but not...

God's Grace Is Sufficient

God is not still speaking. He speaks through the completed Word of God. However, He did speak through the apostles, and the Apostle...

Endurance

Last week I wrote about faithfulness. Closely related to that character quality is endurance or perseverance. To be faithful, you can’t...

Faithfulness

A crucial concept in scripture is “faithfulness.” It starts with the faithfulness of God. God is faithful to us. He never stops...

Minimum Objectives

Love for the Lord Jesus Christ can show up in numbers of different ways. It could take up every moment of every day. You could never...

First What or How, not Why

How do things go wrong? People very often like to emphasize the “why” they go wrong. I asked, How? Maybe people have a reason why it’s...

What Holds a Church Together

What holds a church together into a cohesive unit? It is the truth. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth (John 14:17, 15:26, 16:13). ...

Did God Tell You?

The Bible has been confirmed. It is God’s Word. A voice in the head or an impression that someone calls, “God told me,” is not...

A Church Growing in Numbers

How will Jackson County Baptist Church grow in numbers, what is termed, be built up? The main goal for church growth is evangelism. ...

Position and Practice

There are two ways that any one of us stand before God. We stand before Him positionally and we stand before Him practically. A good...

Joy and Sorrow

When people think of joy today, in general they think of things that will make them happy. They are having a good day, which means that...

The World An Obstacle Course

The world in which we live is somewhat like an obstacle course. Satan and the world system set up the obstacles for living for the Lord....

Bucket List

Perhaps you’ve heard the terminology, “bucket list.” The idea behind it is the list of things that you want to do before you kick the...

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