Do we know anyone who is not a New Testament Christian who is hungering and thirsting for righteousness? We probably do. God wants you to be the door that He puts in front of them, the door through which they must walk to find the salvation they seek.… Read More The Parable of the Costly Pearl
How would you react if you were on a hike one day and you happened to come across a lot of money? That’s the scenario Jesus presents in this parable to illustrate the value of Christianity.… Read More The Parable of the Hidden Treasure
Christians, it is possible to be in Christ’s kingdom right now…but not in the future.… Read More The Parable of the Weeds
These are the ones who, one step at a time, grow in their knowledge of God’s Word and in their spiritual maturity, and such growth is noticeable as the months and years go by (cf. 1 Tim. 4:15-16).… Read More The Parable of the Sower: What Was Sown On Good Soil
Want to know the big reason behind most, if not all, of the problems at your congregation, including perhaps its lack of growth both spirituality and evangelistically? It’s likely because a plurality or more of the members have hearts that are made up of thorny soil. … Read More The Parable of the Sower: What Fell Among The Thorns
If the newly-baptized Christian’s brand-new “church family” is, weeks and months and years after their baptism, still nothing more than a bunch of strangers or barely acquaintances whom they see very briefly a couple of times a week at church, and if they’ve tried to study the Bible on their own but find it difficult without someone helping them (cf. Acts 8:30-31), then we should not be surprised to look around one Sunday and realize that we haven’t seen them in…well, months. And what were their names again? Is this what Jesus wants?… Read More The Parable of the Sower: The Ones on the Rock
How does Satan have the power to “take away the word from their hearts”? Answer: they give it to him. We can do this too. The devil does not have the ability to force any of us to do wrong (1 Cor. 10:13). However, each of us has the ability to choose whether or not to serve God (Josh. 24:15). Many of us choose to follow our own desires, which Satan uses to successfully tempt us to sin (James 1:13-15; cf. Gen. 3:4-6).… Read More The Parable of the Sower: The Path
“An earthly story with a heavenly meaning.” That’s the answer commonly given to the question of how a parable should be defined, at least the one I’ve heard all my life. Is that truly the case, though?… Read More What Is A Parable?
Pre-Denominational Christianity 