What Apostasy Is, How To Recognize It, and What Can Be Done About It

In the one-hour video below released on November 26, Doug Potter of the Southern Evangelical Seminary does a slide presentation on apostasy in the Christian church today. Potter highlights what the New Testament epistles say about apostasy in the church back in the first century and applies the same biblical principles to our time to...

That Time When Paul Taught Timothy the Importance of Discussing Bible Prophecy

There may be a number of church leaders in our time who are reluctant to preach about Bible prophecy or who avoid tackling it, but prophecy is part of the gospel's package deal. Bible prophecy is intertwined and inseparable from the gospel of Jesus Christ. That spiritual fact is on display in all four gospels...

How Reverence for the Lord Made Noah Exceptional

Noah is among the more notable characters in the Bible. It's obvious we can learn a lot from his life given the fact that he was hailed several times as a role model by other people in the Bible, including Isaiah, Ezekiel, the Lord Jesus, Paul, and Peter. Noah was first mentioned in Genesis 5...

The Multiplying of Grace and Peace in Believers’ Lives

The opening verses of 2 Peter are encouraging words of blessing, informing all believers of the spiritual truth that God's grace and peace can always be multiplied in our lives. The grace (unmerited favor) and peace we were given at the moment of our salvation is far from the end of the story, and far...

Christ is Restorer of the Spiritually Disabled

Being in the right place at the right time can reap a load of godly benefits. That's one of several spiritual truths brought to light in verses 6-11 of Luke 6 when the Lord Jesus Christ healed the man with the withered hand. The man, in the midst of his disability, was drawn to seek...

Thank God for Saints Who Advance Spiritual Maturity

Being thankful to God is something we will always owe him. Thanking him can never reach its full capacity in our lives. It's just suitable, right, and our duty to thank him at all times, in all places for the innumerable blessings he grants us through his unmerited favor to us that we have witnessed,...

Skills Forged in Hardships, But Used By God’s Holiness

In Exodus 31, the Bible introduces us to two impressive, skillful, and talented men--Bezaleel and Aholiab. Trained to be craftsmen while in the oppressive bondage of Egypt, when God freed them with the rest of Israel, he revealed where all their skill really came from and laid out the higher purpose for why their talents...

Evangelist Explains His Experiences With Sharing Christ’s Gospel

Christian speaker Greg Stier is interviewed by Alisa Childers in this 55- minute video released October 31. In the interview he shares how he came to the Christian faith at a young age while living in the midst of a chaotic, unstable family life. He was then discipled on how to read and study God's...

God’s Word, Obedience, and Godly Fear Should Unleash a Spark in Our Spirits

When the Israelite captives returned to Judah to rebuild Jerusalem, for a brief period they worked excitedly and feverishly to get a lot of the construction work done. Then they took their eyes off the Lord and what he told them to do, allowing their enemies, the heathen government, and apathy discourage them from moving...

Doing Godly Things to Help the Ungrateful Can Still Grant Us God’s Blessings

You can bend over backwards and go to great lengths in making personal sacrifices to help certain people and in the end they can still be so ungrateful. That's what I've seen unfold in the news in the past several weeks as first responders and medical professionals who were hailed as heroes for their good...