Treasure Chest

A young boy practiced his lines for the Sunday school program, but when the time came for the performance in front of the congregation, he drew a blank. Moments passed as he tried to remember his part. His mother was perched on the front row and tried gesturing to him to prod his memory. She…

An insurance salesman said to his customer: “You’ve filled in this application all right except for one thing, Mr. Perkins — where it asks the relationship of Mrs. Perkins to yourself, you should have put down ‘wife’, not ‘strained’”. The expectations and responsibilities of married life can certainly cause a strain at times! That’s why…

As a pastoral counselor, I have noticed that not all married couples are fulfilled. “Really”? You reply. I guess that’s kind of obvious considering the divorce rate, and percentage of husbands and wives your are having a tough time persevering. Someone wryly observed, “Marriage is kind of like a fly bumping against a window pane.…

An Outline to Study and Share Salvation: past, present and future   3. The future tense: Believers in Jesus will be saved! “And do this [love one another], knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now our salvation [from the presence of sin] is nearer than when…

An Outline to Study and Share Salvation: past, present and future   2. Present tense salvation: believers in Jesus are being saved! “Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation [in your spiritual growth] with fear and…

A Personal Testimony . Over the last two thousand years, countless stories have been written about the grace of God. They are always the same, yet always different, for while the problems grace solves are as varied as the people who have them, the victories which grace produces always have the same majestic imprint. To…

An Outline to Study and Share Salvation: past, present and future 1. Past Tense: Believers in Jesus have been saved! The Lord Jesus Christ promised: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed…

(A witness that true believers are to express to a skeptical world is our bond of spiritual unity. Although we have many differences and denominations, all who have saving faith in the true Jesus are spiritually one in Him.) . Let us first of all glance at the teachings (of Ephesians) here contained as to…

IT WAS THE DIVINE IMPERATIVE. From the beginning, all mankind has desired a look at the God of the Universe. In recognizing this, historians have written about “the desire of all nations.” So in the “fullness of time” God sent His Son (Haggai 2:7; Gal. 4:4). When Jordan finished his evening prayer, he looked up…

Praise lifts your eyes from the battle to the victory, for Christ is already Victor,and you have the Victor in your heart that you might have His victory in your life. Have you ever noticed the way God multiplies your faith when you begin praising Him? There are times when it is more important to…