Sermons and Biblical Studies

You want me to tell you why God is to be loved and how much. I answer, the reason for loving God is God Himself; and the measure of love due to Him is immeasurable love. Is this plain? Doubtless, to a thoughtful man; but I am debtor to the unwise also. A word to … Continue reading “CHAPTER
I – WHY WE SHOULD LOVE GOD AND THE MEASURE OF THAT LOVE”

My child, be no dealer in omens, since it leads to idolatry, nor an enchanter nor an astrologer nor a magician, neither be willing to look at them; for from all these things idolatry is engendered. Didache On Loving God Bernard of Clairvaux

Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted to much wine, but to teach what is good. Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and … Continue reading “OLDER
WOMEN”

Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance. The Bible, Titus 2:2

Christ adopted towards the Scriptures of the Old Testament an attitude of reverent assent and submission, and he maintained this position through his life and ministry, including the post-resurrection period. John Stott

The followers of Jesus seem to have described themselves by various names in early days. Many of these names were redolent of Old Testament phraseology. “The saints” or “holy people” was a common name, implying that they regarded themselves as the pious remnant or true Israel … They themselves constituted a separated “synagogue” or community … Continue reading “OLD
TESTAMENT AND CHRISTIANITY”

For forty-five years continuously, since I left college, I have devoted myself to the one great study of the Old Testament, in all its languages, in all its archaeology, in all its translations, and as far as possible in everything bearing upon its text and history. The result of my forty-five years of study of … Continue reading “OLD
TESTAMENT, TRUSTWORTHINESS OF”

In the Old Testament the New is concealed, in the New Testament the Old is revealed. Augustine of Hippo I beg every devout Christian not to despise the simplicity of language and the stories found in the Old Testament. He should remember that, however simple the Old Testament may seem, it contains the words, works, … Continue reading “OLD
TESTAMENT”

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Henri Frédéric Amiel

Keeping useful keeps us youthful. Author unknown We never grow old. We get old when we stop growing. Author unknown