Advertisers today are fond of telling us to “get what you deserve”. It doesn’t seem to matter whether it is a new car, a home loan, money or almost anything else they are trying to sell, you should get it because you “deserve” it. To truly deserve something you must work to earn it. The bible is quite plain about what we deserve. In Romans 3:23 the...

When I was a child it seemed like the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas took an eternity to pass. Each day seemed to go by at a glacial pace. As I have gotten older, though, things have changed. Now, it seems that the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas flies by in no time at all. It feels as though you barely have time to finish the...

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...