The Love of God

Read 1 John 4:7-21 …      A bit lengthy, but in the reading above John makes a very important declaration – a direct assertion – about an attribute that many in the world today point to as the first and foremost characteristic of God. God is love. Twice in the reading above those very words …

Christians Only

The full title of the work is Christians Only: A History of the Restoration Movement and was authored by James DeForest Murch in 1962. The purpose of the work, as noted, is to present the history of the Restoration movement from its beginnings and those influences that impacted the movement which is a uniquely American …

Knowing God

Read Isaiah 55:8-9 … We often speak of drawing closer to God, or knowing God, but that typically means “we” are finding our way to Him … that we are drawing ourselves into a more personal relationship with God. But there is another aspect of knowing God and that speaks more to discovering those attributes …

The Good Steward

Read 1 Corinthians 4:11 … There is a truth about Christians … each one is a steward. This is the last lesson from V. P. Black’s little study Rust as a Witness, and he rightly points out that Christians don’t have a choice in this respect. The only choice that Christians have is whether one …

The Mite

Read Mark 12:44 … There are several examples of giving in the New Testament. In Acts 4 we find the example of Barnabas, who sold a piece of property to help support the new Christians gathered in Jerusalem. In 2 Corinthians 8 we find those in Macedonia giving well beyond their means to help those …