Jay Adams:“If love has grown cold in a family, the counselor should encourage the husband to do something about it. He must urge him to emulate the love of Jesus Christ for His church…

Let’s talk about the way you talk.You do a lot of talking. That ability to communicate is a gift. But this ability to communicate is not only a gift, it is also a responsibility…

Satan has strategies. What are some of his schemes for attacking us as believers? 1. Lying 2. Blinding 3. Hindering 4. Persecuting 5. TemptingAnd when he tempts, he is subtle. He tries to make obedience to God look bad…

It seems to me that if we are engaged in a war with an enemy who has strategies, we would want to know what those strategies are. God in His Word gives us a guidebook to the enemy’s strategies and so far, we have identified four. 1. He lies. This is is his basic approach…

One of the first steps to benefiting from the Bible is to actually read the Bible. Shocking, I know. This is actually part of why we have started the African Bible Training Centre…

Jesus described Satan as a murderer. He attacks God's people and in 1 John 3, we see that Satan has been using people to physically attack God’s people for a very long time…

I suppose if Satan can’t get you to listen to a false teacher, he’ll try to stop people from hearing a good one. Sometimes he uses people to distract others from hearing the gospel…

Opening Questions: Have you ever been in a situation where you thought someone was in the wrong only to find out later that you had misread the situation? Does that mean we should never evaluate what other people do and have an opinion about it…

Satan wants to keep people from seeing the beauty of Jesus. While The Bible doesn’t say a lot about what Satan does to unbelievers, one of the things that it does say is found in 2 Corinthians 4:4…

One of the most important things you can know about the devil is that he is a liar. Jesus tells us that in John 8:44. He is speaking to a group of people who were rejecting him…

What’s one thing that can change everything? What if you could choose ONE THING to pursue that would be sure to have a positive impact on absolutely everything else in your life? How important would that one thing be…

Jesus’ public ministry began with an explosion of miraculous power. Miracles. Signs and wonders. Supernatural events with no possible human explanation. Not tricks. Actual direct, tangible demonstrations of God’s power…

What do you want most? There are a lot of things to want out there, and you are going to have to make choices. Choosing one thing, means not choosing another, If I do this, I can’t do that. And so you have to choose between your wants…

If you are going to make disciples cross-culturally one of the most important qualities is one that really can’t be taught. You actually have to want to make disciples cross-culturally if you are going to make disciples cross-culturally…

Getting Started: It may seem somewhat awkward to talk about this issue, but it is very important we do look at what the Bible teaches regarding sexual intimacy. Can you think of any reasons we should discuss this in a biblically appropriate way as a church…

It seems so ordinary.Get in your car. Gather with a big group. Sing some songs. Listen to someone talk. Spend time with other people.Week after week after week.Why is gathering as a church so important…

Christians get together. Over and over and over and over again.Week after week we meet as a church. Why? We are looking at Hebrews 10 and we’ve seen that one reason has to do with God. A second reason for our gathering together is found in verse 23, and it has to do with you…

We are to get together as a church on a regular basis.But what for?After reminding us why we gather in chapter 10, verses 19 through 21, the writer of Hebrews, draws out three implications for our life together as a church in verses 22 through 25…

The church gathers.We get together week after week. That seems obvious. But, why? Why is gathering as a church so important? It’s a command. We see that in Hebrews 10:19-25. But, it’s not just a command…

It would be strange to be asked to be part of a group and not have anyone tell you exactly why or what was expected of you once you joined. It certainly wouldn’t be fair, for example, if you were hired for a certain job with specific responsibilities and yet your employer never told you what those responsibilities were…