Little things can seem very insignificant, but they may be quite useful or even highly valuable. Just suppose you wanted to build a room onto your house. If you bought the lumber, the shingles and the drywall but neglected to purchase the nails, your project would be put on hold until the nails were secured. Nails for a building project are small things, but they are of great importance. So are a number of other small things. There are many people who want to serve the Lord b

Becoming a Christian Is Easy; Being a Christian Is More Difficult When we say that the Gospel is “good news,” it is truly the best news you’re going to hear in your lifetime. All of us are sinners (Rom. 3:23). By nature, by choice and by practice the sin record is well established. That record is not without consequence (Rom. 6:23a). It creates a debt that we ourselves could never pay. It condemns us (John 3:17,18) and it puts us on a path that ends up in Hell (Luke 16:19–31)

When the Bible predicts the coming of “perilous times” (II Tim. 3), it is very clear that it is a warning about the spiritual environment of “the last days” (vs. 1). “Having a form of godliness, but” (vs. 5) lets us know that there will be much pretense and hypocrisy among the professing religious crowd. Some will be morally unfit (vs. 6). They will corrupt themselves with the sins of the flesh. Others will be academic idolaters (vs. 7). They will be constantly pursuing knowl