In Hebrews 11:6 we are told that without faith it is impossible to please God, so faith is a necessary characteristic of the Christian. Many people believe that faith is a subjective belief, in other words you choose to believe something without, or even contrary to, the evidence. This is not the faith of the New Testament. In Romans 10:17 the...

Many people in the world profess a belief in the God of the bible, but do they really believe that He can and will do what He says He will do? It’s easy enough to say that we believe, but our actions will really “tell the tale”. Take, for example, the Isrealites of Moses’ day. You would be hard pressed to find any group of people who had more...

I once heard of a man who, when he received his daily newspaper, would put the new paper on top of a stack of a month’s worth of papers he had next to his chair and then would pull the month-old paper from the bottom of the stack and read it instead of the new one. When asked why he did this, he replied that if there were a crisis in the world it...

In Matthew 5:47 Jesus asked the question, “what do you do more than others?” The implication is that Christians are to do more than other people. In this context Jesus is particularly speaking of our relationships with other people. As He says in verse 46, “For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors...