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Oh, Great, He’s Up     1)     An evil spirit (Acts 19:15) said it “ knew Jesus.”  This spirit also said it “ knew Paul.” 2)     This evil spirit then said it did not “ know ” some Jews who claimed to cast out evil spirits. 3)     Satan and his helpers “ know the names ” of those who try to faithfully serve Christ.  Slide 4)     What kind of person (Christian) gets the devil’s attention? a)      Jas. 2:19; 4:7. 5)     Acts 19 affirms Satan takes note of certain people. What does it take to make the devil sit up and take notice of us? 6)     One answer to this question is living a life dedicated to God . Slide  7)     Every true Christian should be a prayer warrior. 8)     God had plenty to say about prayer, and what He said should be applied by every Chr...

  Observe how a family made a birthday very special for the youngest daughter of three.  Anita Presley writes:   A few months ago, my youngest daughter Ashleigh shared her bucket list with my other daughters, Andrea and Ali.  Birthdays have always been a time of celebration in our house, no matter the age.  This year the baby of the group turns 22, and she still gets her day of celebration – even now that the girls are adults and time is more limited.  A few weeks ago Andrea called me and told me her ideas about what to do for Ashleigh’s birthday.  Knowing that Ashleigh likes adventures, Andrea and Ali planned a day that would help cross off items from her bucket list that she had shared with them months earlier.   On the weekend before her birthday, Andrea drove to Montgomery from Nashville and met Ali and Ashleigh -- all on the known planned list.  What was not known to Ashleigh was that Chris and I had been invited to join in o...

Florence There is something that a four-year-old girl and a storm that has been devastating much of the Carolinas have in common: they share the same name. Hurricane Florence has caused tremendous flooding; 32 people have died since the storm made landfall last Friday. Florence Wisniewski of Chicago, Illinois is trying to help the victims of the hurricane that shares her name. Florence's parents, Trish and Paul Wisniewski, used the effects of the hurricane as a teaching moment for Florence her two siblings, Bud, 2, and Olive, 6 months. "We brought it to her [attention] to show her, like, the world doesn't revolve around you, look at all of these things happening," said Trish Wisniewski. "We asked her, 'Do you want to help them? How do you think you should do it?'" Florence and her family decided that even though they live a long way from the Carolinas, they would collect supplies to help the victims of the storm. Florence and her dad created a ...

  “The individual's own study of Scripture requires recourse to an apostolic authority that can resolve interpretive disagreements. otherwise there is no way to determine what is orthodox v. heretical Christianity, besides the individual's personal opinion/interpretation.” – Casey Chalk, Roman Catholic author of “ Don’t Protestantize the Church.”   To Roman Catholics, our claim to every individual’s right to privately interpret the Scriptures is disproven by the plethora of denominations with their myriad of conflicting interpretations of Scripture.   Our response to this is for every individual’s right and obligation to interpret and apply Scripture:   Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. 2 T...

FORTY THINGS WE ALL NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE BIBLE   1. The word “Bible” is from the Greek word “byblos/biblos” and means “book.”  Because of its divinely inspired contents the Bible is rightfully known as “ the Book.” 2. The Bible is a divine library of sixty-six books. 3. The Bible consists of two divisions—the Old Testament (consisting of 39 books) and the New Testament (consisting of 27 books). 4. The books of the Bible were written over a period of some 1600 years, from Moses (c. 1500 B.C.) to the apostle John (100 A.D.). 5. In all, some forty writers were engaged in the writing of the Bible, with eight of these (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Peter, James, and Jude) being responsible for the writing of the New Testament.  The apostle Paul wrote at least thirteen of the New Testament books. 6. The Bible covers three major epochs (large time frames, sometimes referred to as dispensations) of God’s dealings w...

The Right of Private Interpretation   “The individual's own study of Scripture requires recourse to an apostolic authority that can resolve interpretive disagreements. otherwise there is no way to determine what is orthodox v. heretical Christianity, besides the individual's personal opinion/interpretation.” – Casey Chalk, Roman Catholic author of “ Don’t Protestantize the Church.”   To Roman Catholics, our claim to every individual’s right to privately interpret the Scriptures is disproven by the plethora of denominations and the myriad of conflicting interpretations of Scripture.   Our response to this is for every individual to rightly interpret Scripture:   Remind them of these things, and charge them before God[b] not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved,[c] a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of tr...