Posts from September 2025

Read your Bible every day. Call those who are absent from Bible classes and worship. Visit a shut-in. Pray. Encourage a young person. Be patient with those that are old in years. Make visitors at our services feel at home. Tell someone they did a good job. Give liberally. Invite others to come to services with you.

There is trouble in the land. No wideawake person will deny that! These upheavals have caused many parents to express apprehension concerning the future of their children. That is understandable! When our children graduate from high school and leave home many of them also leave the church. Suddenly they are exposed to an environment hostile to Christ, and even to the basic principles of morality. If a young person is not equipped to handle this, he/she is in grave trouble. Unfortunately,…

1.Those who are lost are in need of baptism (Mark 16:16). 2. Scriptural teaching should precede baptism (Matthew 28:18-20). 3.To be properly baptized, one must believe the gospel (Acts 8:12,13; 18:8). 4. In addition, repentance, which is a change of mind and life is a prerequisite to baptism (Acts 2:38). 5. One must also confess Christ prior to baptism (Acts 8:37). 6. Infants are safe, not knowing good from evil (Deuteronomy 1:39). 7.Sin is not inherited (Ezekiel 18:20). 8. Sin…

The passage reads, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Unfortunately, some interpret faith in this verse to simply believing in Christ as God’s Son and accepting Him as one’s personal Savior. John 3:16 certainly teaches that one is saved by faith. However, we must understand that not all faith saves. King Agrippa believed but was not saved (Acts 26:27). The demons…