The Gospels include numerous accounts of healing miracles performed by Jesus. For instance, the Lord cured Peter’s mother-in-law of a high fever (Luke 4:38-39). He gave vision to a man born blind (John 9:7). Jesus restored good health to lepers, epileptics, paralytics, the lame, the maimed, the deaf, the mute. These accounts raise an important…
“For God so loved [the people of Egypt] that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). The Arab Republic of Egypt is a transcontinental country located at the northeast corner of Africa and the southwest corner of Asia. The Sinai Peninsula is the…
After committing adultery David felt defiled, empty, and dispirited. The king longed for spiritual renewal. He prayed: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of…
“For God so loved [the people of the Dominican Republic] that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). The Dominican Republic is a nation located on the island Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea. Haiti occupies the western three-eighths…
One December evening some years ago, Carolyn and I carried three bags down from the attic. It was time to put up and decorate the tree. We had a little problem, though. The stand was missing. It was nowhere to be seen in the attic, the utility closet, or the storage shed in the back…
We are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ…
“For God so loved [the people of Dominica] that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). The Commonwealth of Dominica is an island country in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea. Guadeloupe and Martinique are neighboring islands. Dominica has a population…
“For God so loved [the people of Djibouti] that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). The Republic of Djibouti is located in the Horn of Africa. Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia are bordering countries. Djibouti is also bordered by the Red Sea and…
One late spring evening in 2004, a Freed-Hardeman University Bible instructor named Roy Sharp was preaching a Gospel meeting for a small rural congregation about 20 miles from the college campus. It was my pleasure to be in the audience that night. Roy’s message included a personal story written by Mary Ann Bird. The author…
So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh—for if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons…
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