

SIMON... PETER
“As he passed alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew, Simon’s brother, casting a net into the sea—for they were fishermen....


JACOB... ISRAEL
Abraham and Sarah struggled with their inability to conceive and bear children. Isaac and Rachel did too. Isaac was forty-years-old when...


ABRAM... ABRAHAM
After the sixth day of creation, God gave Adam “dominion over ... every living thing that moves” (Genesis 1:28). This dominion included...


A NEW NAME
I’m a proud grand-papa of eleven precious grandchildren! The oldest is ten. The youngest is four. Included in the eleven are three sets...


GLOBALLY-FOCUSES MINISTRY
On the mount of ascension, Jesus commissioned His disciples, His church, to be outwardly focused. “Go ... make disciples... baptizing...


GROWING GOSPEL-CENTERED DISCIPLES
Think with me. What are some marks or characteristics of a model Christian, examples that we should all seek to emulate? As we’ve looked...


THE LORD’S HAND
Though Paul and Barnabas were among their capable leaders, the church at Antioch wasn’t great because of the pastor’s flamboyant...


CHRISTIANS AT ANTIOCH
Antioch was located about 300 miles north of Jerusalem in Syria. In the first-century, cosmopolitan, metropolitan, pagan Antioch was the...


ANTIOCH
How do we measure a man? Brains and brawn? The number of digits in his paycheck? His expensive car or his expansive home? How do we...


THE BATTLE THAT GIDEON DIDN’T FIGHT
“I will deliver you” (Judges 7:7). Though the evil army of the enemy is “like a swarm of locusts ... as innumerable as the sand on the...



