Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Mark 9. Because we are sinners, it is easy for us to tolerate the existence of sin. If someone sins against us, that can be tough to take, but if we see one person sin against another or we sin against someone else, it is […]
Mark 6
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Mark 6. If you live long enough, at some point someone whose birth and childhood you remember becomes someone important–a judge, a doctor, a professor, your governor, maybe even your pastor. Some people have a hard time respecting the accomplishments of someone they knew as […]
Mark 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Mark 1. If you had a terminal illness or a permanent, disfiguring, disabling injury, how far would you travel to be healed? Would you travel a long way if the chance of being healed was 50%? 20%? 1%? My guess is that just about […]
Philemon
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read the book of Philemon. This is yet another of Paul’s prison letters as we saw in verse 1, “Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ….” Verses 1b-2 tell us the recipients of this letter who were, “Philemon… Apphia [almost certainly Philemon’s wife] our sister and […]
Acts 27
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 27. What is there to say about this chapter of scripture? In terms of spiritual growth, however there is very little to be had from reading this chapter, at least on the surface. But think a bit deeper about this. God is sovereign over […]
Acts 26
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 26. Our reading from chapter 25 ended yesterday just as Paul, in prison in Caesarea, was about to speak to Festus, a Roman governor, and Agrippa, a Jewish governor / client king over the same area as Festus). Here in Acts 26 we read […]
Acts 21
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Today we return to the book of Acts. So, read Acts 21. It has been a while since we read Acts 20, so when Acts 21:1 said, “After we had torn ourselves away from them…” we need to be reminded that Paul had been speaking to […]
Romans 14
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 14. Earlier in these devotionals on Romans, I mentioned that scholars have speculated that there might have been two churches in Rome–one Jewish and one Gentile. If that’s the case–and it is just speculation–then Paul did not see them as two churches but as […]
Romans 10
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 10. In this chapter, Paul continued discussing the unbelief of his people Israel. He spoke directly about his desire and prayer for the salvation of his countrymen (v. 1). Then he reflected on his own experience and concluded, “Yes, we Jews are very […]
Acts 20
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Back to Acts for 1 chapter, then we go to Romans in our next devotional, according to the schedule I’m following for these devotions. Read Acts 20. As we read 2 Corinthians, we noted that Paul was coming to Corinth both to collect an offering for […]