Posts from May 2025

Introduction: The book of Acts is an extremely important book because it gives us the beginning and history of the Lord’s church from about 33 A.D. to 62 A.D. Peter, who had been given the keys to open the kingdom or church (Matthew 16:18,19), is the main character of the first twelve chapters and Paul is the main character of chapters thirteen through twenty-eight. It has rightly been called the book of Conversions because we read of thousands obeying the…

Two well-to-do Christians, a lawyer and a merchant, joined the party that was going around the world. One day in Korea they saw a field by the side of the road, and in the field a boy pulled a crude plow while an old man held the plow handles and directed it through the rice paddy. The lawyer was amused and took a snapshot of the scene. “That’s a curious sight,” he said to the missionary who was interpreter and…

Often we find it hard to express our love for mother.  Perhaps the words of a six-year-old would be helpful.  Struggling with the mysteries of mathematics, he expressed his affection for his mother this way: “Mommy, I love you as many times as God can count.” Perhaps the following Mother’s Beatitudes might be helpful to our mothers, busy rearing their families and doing all that is involved in the function of their high office: “Blessed is the mother who understands…

Church growth always has been and always will be commensurate with the amount of teaching of the Word.  Paul said, “I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase” (I Corinthians 3:6).  You show me a church that is not growing, and I will show you a church that is not sowing.  You show me a church that is not growing, and I will show you a church that is not going. One has but to read the Book…