As one reads the book of Psalms it can be observed how David responded to the Lord. The Lord lived in the heart of David as did David in the heart of God and so it was natural for the Psalmist to express himself by responding to God. An observation of what David did […]

The Lord’s church had not been in existence very long when the apostles faced a challenge. The problem that arose was between two different cultures, or as it was between the Hebrew brethren and the Hellenist or Greek speaking brethren (Acts 6:1). The Greek speaking brethren in Jerusalem were complaining against the Hebrew brethren because […]

The Psalmist wrote: “Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endures forever” (Psalm 107:1). David experienced many difficulties in his life from the time when he was a young shepherd boy tending his flock to when he became the second king of Israel. David suffered at times because of […]

            “And the man (Adam) called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living” (Genesis 3:20). This is the first time that the word “mother” was used in the Word of God and it was used in a very personal way and also in an historical manner. Adam called his wife […]

            As the apostle Paul was coming towards the end of his life in a Roman prison he reflected upon his spiritual life and relationship with God. Paul knew that he had always done what he thought was right according to his understanding of the will of God. “Then Paul, looking earnestly at the council, […]

Sometime in January of this year the world became more aware of a strange virus that was affecting people in a negative way in Wuhan, China and quite a number of those people were actually dying from it. The virus was in the coronavirus family and since has come to be known as Covid-19. Evidently […]

The prophet Isaiah communicated to the people of God about many issues of faith in God and also concerning the promise of the future, specifically the arrival of the Messiah Jesus into this world. The people of God often looked at the impressive nations round about them and would begin to lose their true faith. […]

            An enemy of Christ and the church during the early days of the church was Saul of Tarsus. Luke records that Saul was persecuting the church in very horrible manner; “Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord…asked letters …so that if he found any who were of the […]

One day the telephone rang at the church office of a congregation of the church of Christ and the woman calling was seeking assistance. She explained to the brethren that she needed to travel to a city of a distance of some 100 miles away in order to be with her family, but that she […]

God blessed the children of Israel by leading them to the promised land of Canaan and giving the land over to them. Throughout the following 500 years or so the people of God, descendents of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob became a great nation. Their greatness was seen during the time of the kings David and […]