Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read 1 Timothy 4. In today’s chapter, Paul turned to address Timothy personally. After warning him about prophesies that some would abandon the faith (vv. 1-4), Paul spoke about the importance of tending to his own spiritual life in verses 6-10. The key verse in this […]
1 Timothy 3
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read 1 Timothy 3. If you were starting an organization and looking for leaders to help it succeed, what kind of person would you look for? These are all reasonable things to look for, humanly speaking, but not one of them is reflected in the […]
Mark 8
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Mark 8. Do you remember the Judiazers from passages we’ve already read in Acts, Galatians, and Colossians? They were a group of people who called themselves Christians but tried to impose Old Testament ceremonies on the Gentile believers who came to Christ and became part […]
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 […]
Colossians 3
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Colossians 3. In many different ways, Christ calls us to live in the present based on things that are past or future. In the present we have to live in a fallen world and we struggle against the instincts of our fallen nature. But […]
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 […]
Romans 13
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Romans 13. This chapter continued applying the theology of Romans 1-11 to the everyday lives of us Christians. The passage started by telling us that government exists by God’s appointment (v. 1b), so we must obey whatever ruling authorities exist over us (v. 1a). After […]
2 Corinthians 13
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read 2 Corinthians 13. Paul wrapped up this letter by warning the Corinthians again about his coming visit. He was hopeful, as we saw in earlier chapters, that his visit would be warm and affirming. Yet, he was concerned about how he would be received […]
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 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read 1 Thessalonians 1. We paused our reading in Acts at Acts 18 in the last devotional because it seems clear that Paul wrote this first letter to the Thessalonians while he was in Corinth during the time period covered by Acts 18 (see Acts […]