Psalm 4, verse 7: You have put gladness in my heart more than in the season when their grain and wine increased. We must always remind ourselves when we are reading the scripture, especially as we are doing with the Psalms, to get the context within [...]

We’re in Psalm 2, and this is verses 4 and 5. He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath and distress them in His deep displeasure. So we see a conspiracy building from [...]

We’re continuing our study of John’s Gospel, chapter 4, and we are looking at the whole idea of sharing the Gospel with someone else. We are looking at Jesus as our pattern, and in this conversation He’s having with the woman at the well, there’s so [...]

We conclude our study of Psalm 5 today with verse number 12: «For you, O Lord, will bless the righteous; with favor you surround him as with a shield.» So David concludes his thoughts in this verse on a note of God’s faithfulness and who God is. If [...]

We’ve talked about living positively. We’ve talked about delighting ourselves in the Lord, but we do all of that because we trust that God is able. God has the ability to do things for us. We don’t just trust in Him and hope that things will be [...]

Exodus 4, verses 11 and 12: So the Lord said to him, «Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have I not, the Lord?» Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what to say. God is [...]

Psalm 3:5 I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustained me. As I’ve said from the beginning, Psalm 3 talks about David’s time of difficulty when his son Absalom rebelled against him, and a lot of his leaders followed Absalom. David was [...]

Psalm 4:6: There are many who say, «Who will show us any good?» Lord, lift up the light of your countenance upon us. As you know, this Psalm is tracking the life of David, and it is happening at a time when there is a big rebellion going on in his [...]

Exodus 3:12. So He said, «I will certainly be with you, and this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.» This was God’s response to Moses. Moses had expressed [...]

We end our study of the third Psalm today, and we read from verse 8: «Salvation belongs to the Lord; Your blessing is upon Your people.» So, we know how Absalom’s rebellion ended. He rose up against David, his father, and it didn’t end well for [...]

We’re still tracking Jesus on the way to Jerusalem for the grand entrance into the city. Luke Chapter 19, Verses 32-34: So those who were sent went their way and found it just as he had said to them. But as they were loosening the colt, the owners [...]

Welcome, and I trust that the Lord is giving you strength every day as you feed on His word. We are in Psalm 5 and we’re looking at verses 9 and 10, and it reads: «For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is destruction; their [...]

Psalm 2, verse 7: I will declare the decree; the Lord has said to me, «You are my Son; today I have begotten you.» As I said earlier, Psalm 2 is royal; it’s a Messianic Psalm because it speaks to royalty and the history of Israel, but it also speaks [...]

Psalm 4:3: But know that the Lord has set apart for Himself him who is godly. The Lord will hear when I call to Him. This verse, verse three, is a response to verse two. Yesterday, we looked at verse two. In verse two, David is asking, «How long? [...]

Psalm 3, verse four: I cried to the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. So David knew what to do when he was in trouble. People were saying God had abandoned him, but he says, when all of this was going on, I cried to [...]

We are learning from Psalm number five, and as we’ve said, the Psalms were very important to the life of the Old Testament believers as well as the early believers in Christ Jesus. It was a way of learning how to pray and how to worship before God. [...]

Welcome to a brand new week. We’re going back to the Psalms as we consider the prayer of the people of Israel, particularly the prayer of King David. The Psalms were very important in the life of the Old Testament Christians and actually in the New [...]

Well, we are coming to our final reading from John chapter 4. We started by looking at Jesus’s encounter with a woman at the well, the Samaritan woman, and we’ve seen the conversation progress until other people are coming to the saving knowledge of [...]

1 John 1: 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. As I stated earlier, 1 John is addressing problems in the early church. At this point, there are some people who believe that Jesus Christ did not come in [...]

1 John 1:6: If we say that we have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. The early Christians had similar problems to ours; they had a problem called nominalism. Nominalism is when people accept something, [...]

We are continuing our study of John chapter 4 as we see Jesus introducing the gospel to the Samaritan woman at the well. In verses 11 and 12, the woman said to Him, «Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do you get [...]

As we pursue our Christian life, we must be careful not to exchange the gift of salvation that God has given to us for the pleasures of this world. We must not sell our birthright, as we are warned against in Hebrews 12, verses 16 and 17: «Lest [...]

Exodus 4:13 and 14 But he said, «Oh my Lord, please send by the hand of whomever else You may send.» So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and He said, «Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well, and look, [...]

Psalm 4, verse 2: How long, O you sons of men, will you turn my glory to shame? How long will you love worthlessness and seek falsehood? Selah. In verse two of Psalm 4, David is raising questions, and remember that I’ve said that questions help us [...]

We’ve been looking at the fact that the Christian life is a race. It’s something that we pursue when we give our lives to Jesus Christ; we make a commitment, and that’s a good commitment. But the Christian life doesn’t end at the commitment level. [...]

Exodus 4:22 — 23: «Then you shall say to Pharaoh, 'Thus says the Lord: Israel is My son, My firstborn. So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, indeed I will kill your son, your firstborn.'» [...]

Everything we want to achieve in life requires effort, and effort always faces resistance. So when you make an effort to move forward, there will be something trying to push you to either stay where you are or go backward. That is why when we pursue [...]

We’ve had a very long two weeks of study around wisdom. We’ve tried to define what it is, and we’ve looked at how it works. We’ve examined different attributes that make us seem wise and attributes that do not make us seem wise. So we are ending our [...]

1 John 1:9: If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. This passage is addressing the self-righteous believer and the sin-denying believer. It’s interesting how John includes [...]

Well, we’re getting closer and closer to Jerusalem. Luke Chapter 19, Verses 35-36: Then they brought him to Jesus, and they threw their own clothes on the colt and set Jesus on him. As he went, many spread their cloths on the road. Two disciples [...]

Welcome to a brand new week. This is a significant week that leads to Palm Sunday, the triumphant entry of the Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. My teaching this week will be tracking — first, we begin with a prophecy leading to the triumphant [...]

Welcome to a new week. We start a new study from the book of Exodus. It’s a follow-up to an earlier study we began a few months ago about the call of Moses in Exodus chapter number three. We ended our previous study in verse 10, and we are picking [...]

We’re considering Jesus and his meeting with the woman at the well; so we want to look at how Jesus reached out to this woman. John 4:7-9: A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, «Give me a drink,» for His disciples had gone away [...]

Psalm 2:2 and 3: The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed, saying, «Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us.» The psalmist is amazed at the [...]

Exodus 4: 27 and 28: And the Lord said to Aaron, «Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.» So he went and met him on the mountain of God and kissed him. Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him and all the signs which he had [...]

You’re welcome to a brand new week, and we are continuing our teaching from John chapter 4. We are looking at Jesus’s encounter with a Samaritan woman by the well. So much has occurred during the conversation that Jesus is having with this woman. In [...]

We’re still in John’s Gospel, chapter 4. It’s been quite a study of Jesus’s encounter with a Samaritan woman by the well, and the conversation has arrived at Jesus revealing himself as the Messiah, as the Savior of the world. When he did, something [...]

Luke 23, verses 3 and 4: Then Pilate asked Him, saying, «Are you the King of the Jews?» He answered him and said, «It is as you say.» So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowd, «I find no fault in this man.» Because the Jewish leaders were [...]

Matthew 5:6 — Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. We can recognize these words of Jesus Christ as the opening of His Sermon on the Mount or the opening of the Beatitudes, where He taught extensively [...]

Exodus 4:6 — 7: Furthermore, the Lord said to him, «Now put your hand in your bosom.» So he put his hand in his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, like snow. And he said, «Put your hand in your bosom again.» So he put his [...]

I want to talk about diligence today. Proverbs 12 verse 24 states, «The hand of the diligent will rule, but the lazy man will be put to forced labor.» Diligence is critical for all our life’s endeavors. To be diligent is to be careful and persistent [...]

God is interested in our attitudes, the attitudes we have when we’re waiting for something good to happen to us, when we’re going through a difficulty, when life is hard. God pays attention to how we should behave because the way we behave in those [...]

God wants to make a beautiful thing out of your life. Ezekiel chapter 34, verse 29: «I’ll raise up for them a garden of renown, and they shall no longer be consumed with hunger in the land, nor the shame of the Gentiles anymore.» Ezekiel, whom God [...]

We’ve been looking at Psalm 1, but we’ll shift gears a bit and look at Psalm 92. As we examine verse 12 of Psalm 92, it says, «The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.» The righteous here refers to people [...]

We’re continuing our study of Psalm 8, and we’re looking at verse 5: «For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and you have crowned him with glory and honor.» Previously, David had asked the question, «What is man that you are mindful [...]

Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to each one of us and each one of you. It’s been a joyful ride, trusting the Lord this year, working with Him, walking with Him, and knowing Him. I trust that the times we’ve had sharing the Word of God have been [...]

Psalm 1, and so we’re going to look at verses from Psalm 1. We begin with the first verse: blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. This passage shows us [...]

We will continue our study of the Christmas story from the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 2, verses 1 and 2. Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, «Where [...]

I’m continuing my teaching on wisdom, and I’m talking about designing and building, Exodus 31, verses 4 and 5, which speak about designing artistic works: to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in cutting jewels for setting in wood, and to work all [...]

Welcome to a brand new week. We are continuing our study of wisdom, and we are going to move away from Proverbs chapter 8 and pick different scriptures that address the subject of wisdom. Today, we’re talking about the spirit of wisdom from Exodus [...]