God Is Slow to Anger and It Only Lasts for a Moment God Loves Us and His Favor Lasts a Lifetime The book of Psalms gives us glimpses into God’s character and his love for us. Though some people view God, as portrayed in the Old Testament, as...
We Must Listen to God and Do What He Says God Promises Rewards for Obedience and Punishment for Disobedience As we read through the book of Leviticus, which is a struggle for most of us, we read instruction after instruction of what God expects...
How Does the Old Testament Law Fit Our New Testament Faith? The Old Testament Law gets us started and points us to Jesus Why is the Old Testament Law in the Bible? How is it relevant for us today? Many followers of Jesus ignore the Law they read...
Love Is the Greatest Command The Most Important Thing in the Bible Is Love Though the Bible has many commands, love is the greatest command of them all. Check it out: The Old Testament Law In the first five books of the Bible, sometimes called...
How Does Jesus Fulfill the Law and the Prophets? Jesus does three things to complete what the Old Testament started Jesus drew people to him. The words he spoke and the hope he communicated attracted them. Some people assumed he had come to...
Considering the Sabbath: Are You Free or a Slave? Don’t be a slave to the Law or to legalism, but be free to accept Sunday as a gift from God The fourth of God’s Ten Commandments tells us to not work on the seventh day of the week and to keep it...
Don’t Fight Against God Too many people fail to see God at work and instead oppose those who follow him into his new ways Jesus warns his followers what awaits them. First, they’ll get kicked out of their church and then people will kill them...
Is Our Relationship With God More Important Than Obedience? The Old Testament Law talks a lot about offering sacrifices to God, but what if he really wants something more? King Solomon writes in the book of Ecclesiastes that we need to be careful...
Who Says We Should Give 10% to the Local Church? Fundamentalist preachers twist what the Bible says and misapply it for their own benefit I was taught to give 10 percent of my money to church. I’ve heard many evangelical preachers assert that...
Don’t Drink Blood / Drink My Blood Among the many “laws” (that is, rules and regulations for right behavior), that God—through Moses—gave the nation of Israel was an unconditional prohibition against drinking blood. Every Hebrew...
