Articles for Pastors

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Although God had long been preparing His people for the coming of Christ, it’s remarkable how “unexpected” the arrival of this long-promised Messiah was.

Why do we so often envy what other people have? The answer is simple, it’s found throughout the Word of God, particularly in the book of Ecclesiastes, and we verify its truth every day... it's the search for life.

The virgin conception of the Lord Jesus is both wonderful and meaningful; it points us to at least three facets of the incarnation.

Death has a way of doing things. It barges right in, uninvited, disrupting life. It rudely divides families, and leaves those who remain behind mourning, sorrowful, and diminished from who they were prior to the loss.

Some hold to what is called the impeccability of Christ. This is the view that it was not possible for Christ to have sinned. Other believe that if Jesus were not able to sin then his temptations would have been a farce. How can temptation be real if you couldn’t fall?

Don’t believe in false hope. Don’t believe people who tell you that God will keep you from all suffering or that God will bring you out of suffering really quickly. That’s false hope. It abounded in the days of Jeremiah and it is abounding today.

Let’s face it, the Old Testament (OT) is where Bible reading plans go to die. You get off to a great start in Genesis and Exodus, but then Leviticus is like an impenetrable brick wall.