Jan 15, 2026 | Wednesday
The Lord spoke with Solomon, answering his prayer after the completion of the temple. In I Kings 9 God said, Solomon “if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee,...
Jan 8, 2026 | Wednesday
When the Kjeldgaards, and Judy and I went down to the Bible conference in Granite Bay, California, last fall, we drove through the middle of Oregon. Passing by the city of Bend, off to the west, we could see some of the peaks of the southern Cascades. Consulting my...
Jan 1, 2026 | Wednesday
In your opinion, what is the absolute WORST SIN – the most damning satanic HERESY ever devised? There could be some general answers like “unbelief,” but I’m thinking about more specific things. Someone might point to today’s rampant sexual immorality or some sort of...
Dec 25, 2025 | Wednesday
With what kind of sentence does this verse begin: “Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord”? For example, is “Rejoice in the Lord” a question? I asked a question about this sentence, but was Paul asking a question? “What? Shall we rejoice in the...
Dec 18, 2025 | Wednesday
You are on the Alex Trebec Stage, battling for your next win in the game show “Jeopardy.” The category is “I-C-S” in quotation marks, and the answer is “The study of work efficiency.” Your opponents hesitate for a split second, and you click in. You quickly answer:...
Dec 11, 2025 | Wednesday
Epaphroditus was the mailman who carried this letter from Rome to Philippi. Paul gives us a some information about the man, which we may, or may not, consider in another message. In addition to being Paul’s messenger, he is a brother, fellow soldier and companion –...
Dec 4, 2025 | Wednesday
Once again, I’d like use a parable through which to look that these five verses – we have a parabolic lens. In 1908 the a new kind of race was introduced to the Olympic Games, and since then it has taken several forms. I’m talking about the“relay race” in track and...
Nov 27, 2025 | Wednesday
In 1989 something was done in Yosemite National Park that had never been done before. Mark Wellman ascended the nearly vertical face of the 3,000 foot granite monolith, El Capitan. He wasn’t the first man to ever climb that famous peak, but he was the first paraplegic...
Nov 20, 2025 | Wednesday
There was much in the church in Philippi that filled the heart of Paul with joy. He remembered with a smile those first converts and how they bonded together. And throughout the years they supported him time and time again. And now there were many others, some of whom...
Nov 13, 2025 | Wednesday
Off and on over the last couple months we have looked at the first twenty-one verses of this letter. In these three or four paragraphs, have you detected any depression on the part of the penman? Even though Paul refers to his confinement and “bonds”… Even...
Nov 6, 2025 | Wednesday
Toward the end of this epistle to the Philippians – Paul says, “I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound; every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.” “I have learned, in WHATSOEVER...
Oct 30, 2025 | Wednesday
My wife, Judy, and I first met during Middle School, which was then called Junior High. We became serious about one another a year or so later, after which we went to different high schools. But we were soon both saved by God’s grace, and we attended the same little...
Oct 23, 2025 | Wednesday
You’ve been out all day. You left the house about 8:30 and now, at 5:45, you finally get back home. You’ve been working hard all that time, running here and there, and actually accomplishing quite a bit. You are feeling good about the day, but you are returning tired...
Oct 16, 2025 | Wednesday
Tonight, we begin a study of Paul’s letter to the church which he planted in Philippi, Macedonia. Some of these messages will come on Sunday mornings, if they are evangelical or Christological, but as this is one of Paul’s more personal letters, most of material will...
Oct 9, 2025 | Wednesday
A few months ago, I finished this about the Baptist pastor Abraham Booth, who died about 220 years ago. By the grace of God, rising from poverty and ignorance, he taught himself to read, eventually becoming one of the preeminent pastors and preachers in England. In...
