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 4
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Mark 4. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not hard to understand. That is the Good News in a few basic bullet points. There is depth behind those bullet points to be learned and explored, but the message is not difficult. So why don’t […]
Colossians 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Colossians 1 Whenever I read Paul’s descriptions of his prayers, I am struck by how different they are than the way I often pray and the way that I’ve heard most other Christians pray. Frankly, most of our prayer requests and prayers for each […]
Ephesians 3
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Ephesians 3. Paul described for the Ephesians how he prayed for them in verses 14-19 of this chapter. His prayer was that they would be strengthened spiritually by God’s power (v. 16). Specifically, he wanted them to know Christ by faith (v. 17) and go […]
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 […]
2 Corinthians 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read 2 Corinthians 1. In 2 Corinthians 1 Paul began, after his usual opening in verses 1-2, to praise God for the comfort He gave to Paul during his times of trouble (vv. 3-11). Paul then wrote at some length about trouble in general (vv. […]
Acts 19
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 19. The city of Ephesus occupied an important place in the New Testament, and here in Acts 19 we read about Paul’s first contact with this city. You know about the letter we call “Ephesians” that Paul wrote to the church there. He […]
2 Thessalonians 3
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read 2 Thessalonians 3. We all know that we should be praying for our missionaries and others who serve the Lord full-time in ministry. But what should we pray for, specifically? Maybe we ask the Lord to “bless them,” but what do we really mean […]
2 Thessalonians 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read 2 Thessalonians 1. In yesterday’s reading we read about the end of humanity as we know it. We learned there in 1 Thessalonians 5 that most of the human race will be caught utterly unprepared when the “day of the Lord” comes in judgment. Here […]
1 Thessalonians 3
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read 1 Thessalonians 3. When someone asks me to pray for someone I don’t know, I usually ask if the person I’m praying for is a Christian. It is disturbing to me how often the answer I get back is, “I don’t know.” But I’ll […]