This week's lessons teach us how John the Baptist prepared the way for Christ's coming. Scripture: Mark 1:1-8 The first two parts of John's message are sin and the need for forgiveness, and the person ...

The last section of the psalm is a confident cry for God's deliverance, because the psalmist knows that God has heard him and will provide deliverance. David's words are actually a war cry, as I ...

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In this week’s lessons, from this last psalm of David we see that we are given a guide for how to praise God. Scripture: Psalm 145:1-21 The nearly parallel lines in verses 1 and 2 make three ...

In the thirteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians the Apostle Paul is saying that if we love Christ, we ought to love one another. In dealing with the importance of love, it strikes me that John’s tests ...

This week’s lessons remind us what the Christian’s attitude and response toward possessions need to be, as disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ. Scripture: Mark 6:7-11 3. Stewardship. Central to any ...

In our study next week we will see how David responded to his meditation on God's omniscience and omnipresence. It is the response of one who has learned what it is to be known by God and to be loved ...

There are 13 chapters in the book of 2 Corinthians. This seventh chapter is the summary, or wrap-up, of what has come before. 2 Corinthians can be divided easily into three parts: chapters 1 through 7 ...

This week’s lessons exhort us to examine ourselves to see if we are truly followers of Christ. It is one thing to practice discipline where there is a clear violation of the law of God, and there is ...

John Knox called Calvin’s Geneva “the most perfect school of Christ that ever was in the earth since the days of the Apostles.” Calvin’s ministry was marked by a commitment to wed deep theological ...

This is certainly a season to think about the birth of Christ. This week we’ll focus in on who Jesus is—not a little baby in a barn, but the God of Creation. Scripture: John 1:1-4 Yesterday I spoke of ...

This week’s lessons teach us how to keep going when the going gets tough. I think there are two things that made Paul’s situation so difficult at this point. One is the hardship he had been through. I ...