How can we possibly love our enemies? We cannot deny that is what Jesus told us to do, but how do we put such a radical teaching into practice in real life? Today’s passage has several practical tips for us. First, verse 16 reminds us that pride and hatred go…

Bible Reading for May 24 – Romans 12:9-15 What does it really mean to love others? In these verses, Paul gives us a host of examples, but all of them have in common the idea of seeking the welfare of someone else regardless of the cost to the self. In…

Have you ever felt overwhelmed, like the whole world is stacked against you? Have you ever felt like you had nowhere to turn? When David wrote this psalm, his father-in-law, King Saul was chasing him around the country, trying to kill him. He was so desperate to get away from…

While Jesus’ teaching on marriage may be more controversial to our modern society, it is His command that we love our enemies that has to be the most difficult for anyone to put into practice. For all of us, even Christians, tend to love in the way that verses 32-34…

Why should we bother trying to learn and to live according to God’s wisdom? Of course we know it’s the right thing to obey our Lord, and to try to please our Heavenly Father. But from today’s passage, it turns out that there are lots of practical reasons as well….

Perhaps you know folks who grew up in a Christian home but then turned away from the gospel. They know all the important facts about Jesus, and yet they have rejected Christ, choosing instead to live according to what feels good or what makes sense to them. What’s your reaction…

Why don’t they get it? Maybe you have family members or close friends who don’t believe in Jesus. You’ve tried and tried to explain the gospel to them, but they’re just not interested – they just don’t want to hear it. Why can’t they see what you see? This was…

What do you want people to remember about you after you’ve gone? God had greatly blessed Paul’s ministry in Ephesus – in fact, God had worked mighty miracles of healing through him (see Acts 19:11 and following). But in his farewell speech to the leaders of that church, Paul chose…

Opposition to the claims of Christ is nothing new. In verse 4, Paul talks about people using persuasive arguments to delude believers into denying Christ. In verse 8, he points to deceptive human philosophies which focus on the principles of this world. This sort of thing is still very much…

Why did so many of the Jews of Paul’s time refuse to believe that Jesus was their Messiah? Now, to be sure, many of them did in fact come to faith. When Paul came to Antioch in Pisidia (in the place we now call Turkey), he went into the synagogue…