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 but feel they have very little to offer. Sometimes it takes them to the place of reluctance. They seem to feel that if they can’t do something really important, it is not worth the effort; so they do nothing at all. Just
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). But hold the phone! There’s more that you must not miss. Jesus came and paid our debt for us (I Cor. 15:3,4). “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”—Rom. 5:8. W
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 knowledge but never willing to admit the truth and surrender to it. Some others will resist leadership and defy authority. They will not follow those who follow the Lord (vs. 8a). This is a huge battle in the twenty-first cen
