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Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here  House Built on rock    “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?” — Luke 24:32 The parable of the two houses in Matthew 7 is one of those stories we all learned as children in Sunday school. I still remember singing, “The rains came down and the floods came up,” not realizing then how deeply that simple truth would speak to life. Jesus told that parable not only to His disciples but to all of us. Before sharing it, He said, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.” Then He continued, “Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into ...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   Contend for our faith in a confusing world    Letter of Jude We went through several books in the New Testament. We started with the prison letters of Paul, and we finished those. We also included the letter to Philemon, which Paul wrote while he was in prison. He continued all of that so that we can understand each book is written to encourage and empower believers who were being persecuted at that time for their faith. It is still applicable to us today. When we came to the letters of Peter, we talked about several things, including the scoffers and the people who were teaching wrong doctrines. Peter mentioned some things about them and asked the congregations and the people not to follow them. B...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   One prisoner sets another one free      Paul's Letter to Philemon We have been learning and discussing the letters of Paul that he wrote from prison in Rome to various churches. This particular letter, however, is unique because it wasn’t written to a church—it was written to a person. Paul only wrote a couple of personal letters, and this is one of them. The other is the letter to Timothy. All his other letters were addressed to churches. Paul was imprisoned somewhere around 60 to 62 AD for preaching the gospel. He was imprisoned in Rome because, as a Roman citizen, he had the right to be tried there. He was taken to Rome and held under house arrest, which allowed him some freedom to receive ...

Buy  my books   " Joy in the Journey "  and  " Song in the Night" on Amazon now 20% goes to missions               Experiencing sound quality issues?  Please Click here   Day of the Lord      2 Peter 3:1-13 Peter closes his letters with the reminder that the day of the Lord is at hand. But how long have we been hearing this—that the Lord is coming back? You have been hearing it for the last 2,000 years. But the people, the church in the first century, also had the same problem. They had been hearing about the second coming of the Lord Jesus for less than 100 years in the first century, and maybe another 100 years in the second century. But they started questioning: when is this Lord you are saying going to come back? Peter is answering them: “You must understand in the last days scoffers will come scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say,...