Why should Christians bother to read the Old Testament law? If Jesus has already paid the price for all my lawbreaking, why does it matter anymore? Why can’t I just love God and love other people like Jesus said? Well, what does it really mean to love God and love…

Are you scared today? Are you hurting? Perhaps you’re struggling with addictions or bad habits. Maybe you’re stuck in an abusive relationship. Maybe you’re worried about your health, or the health of someone you love. Or maybe, as you look at the chaos careening through our culture, you’re just anxious…

Why do wicked people seem to prosper? Why is there so much injustice in this world? According to verse 11, it is natural for human beings to wonder about such things. Because we are made in the image of God, we have “eternity” in our hearts – we are able…

How should Christians make decisions? How can we be sure that we are acting in accordance with God’s will? Today’s passage records the first significant decision Jesus’ disciples had to make after He had gone away into Heaven. How did they know what to do? In the first place, verse…

The sad truth is that everyone’s not going to believe in Jesus. No matter how clearly we may present the truth of His Resurrection, no matter how clearly we may show the same sort of self-sacrificial, unconditional love He showed to us on the cross, there are some people who…

Sometimes, as we saw yesterday in the case of Lydia, God speaks to people through gentle persuasion, convincing them of the truth of the claims of Christ. Sometimes, He has to do something miraculous, as we see today. That’s especially true for hard cases like this Philippian jailer, who was…

How can you reach out to people with whom you have nothing in common? It’s never been easy to communicate across racial, cultural and socio-economic barriers, but that was Paul’s challenge in today’s passage. Sure, he had been accustomed to taking the gospel to Jewish people who had never heard…

Every little kid in Sunday School knows the “Golden Rule” – Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. But for most of us, much of the time, that’s a struggle. It’s hard to love others just as much and in the same way that we love…

The gospel is for all the nations? That’s what the apostles claimed, and got in a lot of hot water from the Jewish religious leaders of their time as a result. But as we see from this passage, it was always God’s intention for all the peoples of the world…

There has been much ink spilled over the many questions raised by these few verses. Who is the angel with the key and the chain? When does this 1000 year period take place? How can there be more than one resurrection? Instead of getting down into the weeds, let’s take…