Giving Thanks: The Sacrifice of Praise

( Hebrews 13:15 “By Him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually,that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to His name.” As we come to this Thanksgiving week 2022, we are faced with a question: Why and how should we give thanks to God?...

Keeping the Glory in the Gospel

Revelation 14:1-7 The new vision in Revelation 14 begins with the words[i], “And I looked, and, behold, a Lamb…” This is a dramatic change from the vision of the dragon and the vicious beasts in Revelation 12 and 13. Those evil ones will make war against the believers...

How Should Leaders Rule?

2 Samuel 23:1-4 What is wrong with the American political scene? Why is there so much corruption and confusion? Why do our leaders seem to be so blind to the very real problems that we are facing? About the time that you think it couldn’t get any worse, our society...

The Beast and His Mark

Revelation 13:11–18 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the...