Category: Bible

B.C. Goodpasture Deceased             About forty men were engaged in the writing of the Bible during a period of about sixteen hundred years—that is from 1500 BC to AD 100.  These men wrote as the Holy Spirit moved them (2 Peter 1:21). They wrote not in words of human wisdom, but in words divinely taught (1 Cor. 2:13). The Bible contains 3,566,480 letters, 773,746 words, 31,102 verses, 1,189 chapters and 66 books.  The Old Testament contains 39 books; the New Testament, 27 books. In point of length, the average word of the Bible contains fewer...

Bible classes are very important. Hosea 4:6 states, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” Do we want God to forget our children? Do we want to be destroyed? Do we want to be rejected from being a priest to and for God? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then there is no need to study God’s Word....Continue reading

“And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified” Acts 20:32. As Paul is giving his farewell speech to the elders of Ephesus, there are several topics in which Paul is instructing them. They needed encouragement and so do we. First, he commends them to God. Paul will no longer be with them to guide them along the journey to eternity. They will have to turn to God’s Word to...Continue reading

God set a law into effect at the beginning of time. Paul states it as such: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not” (Galatians 6:7-9). Let us remember that we will harvest what we have sown. There are...Continue reading