Job 1:9 “Does Job fear God for nothing?” Satan replied. Satan attacked Job’s motives, saying that Job was blameless and had integrity only because he had no reason to turn against God. Ever since he had started following God, everything had gone well for Job. Satan wanted to prove that Job worshiped God, not out…

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Job 1:1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. As one reads the book of Job, one has information that the characters of the story do not. Job, the main character, lost all he had through no…

Job 1:8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” Job was an upright man who feared God. Yet God allowed him to suffer, not because he was guilty of…

Philippians 4:13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength. Many of us have seen some variation of these words in encouraging notes and cards, in art, on t-shirts, tattooed on people’s bodies, and even scrawled on the shoes of famous athletes or printed on their eye black. The verse is often…

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness… ALL Scripture is useful. Ephesians 1:17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. One…

2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness… Proverbs 30:5 reminds us that every word of God is flawless so if 2 Timothy 3:16 says ALL scripture is God breathed and useful then that is certainly true. ALL Scripture is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting…

In December of 2013, Wes McAdams, who currently serves as the preaching minister for the McDermott Road Church of Christ in Plano, TX, published an article entitled “An Open Letter to Churches of Christ”. In his article Mr. McAdams listed 5 things that he thought those of us within the churches of Christ needed to…

This is what the Lord says: “As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes and people say, ‘Don’t destroy it, there is still a blessing in it,’ so will I do in behalf of my servants;I will not destroy them all. Despite the unholy rebellion and pride of some of the remnant,…

One of my favorite songs in our songbooks is titled “No Tears in Heaven”. It’s an encouraging hymn about how in eternity there will be no more sadness. It is based, in part, on scriptures from the book of Revelation like Revelation 7:17 which tells us For the Lamb at the center of the throne…