If you return to Job 1:3, you can read what Job originally owned. He had 7,000 sheep, and he winds up with 14,000. So his flocks grow as he feeds them and breeds them. Their numbers increase to twice the original flock. There's plenty to eat. And there's also plenty of land to graze, so the sheep grow in number to 14,000.
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With Thanksgiving coming soon, along with the hustle and bustle of family coming to town and starting the Christmas shopping – I just want to give you a reminder to stop and be thankful. In Luke 17, we see the story of how Jesus encountered 10 lepers – who saw Jesus and believed He could heal them. So the lepers cried out from a distance, “Jesus, master, have mercy on us!” ...
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Many Christians have understandably looked ahead to today’s election with serious concerns, dreading the results regardless of the outcome. In light of those concerns, we asked John MacArthur to help us get some perspective on the election, and the state of the world in general. How do we make sense of a world growing increasingly hostile to God’s Word and His people?
Read MoreI’ll never forget the doctor’s words … “You have cancer. You will have a mastectomy. You will lose your hair.” The doctor delivers these words matter-of-factly, as I sit on the examining table—absolutely stunned.
Read MoreThe other day a friend told me about his divided family—an atheist brother, a sister married to a woman nobody in the family likes, and a stepsister with kids who are hellions. He is the only Christian in the bunch and, to make it worse, the only Republican.
Read MoreMy soul, do you feel this holy trembling at the sins of others? For if you do not, you lack inward holiness. David's cheeks were wet with rivers of waters because of prevailing unholiness. Jeremiah desired eyes like fountains that he might lament the iniquities of Israel, and Lot was deeply troubled by the conduct of the men of Sodom. Those upon whom the mark was set in Ezekiel's vision ...
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