Privilege Brings Responsibility

If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread…

Matthew 4:3

The tempter sought to ensnare Christ through the age old method of embittering His spirit. He pointed out the indignity of the Son of God going…

Church Finances

“But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.”

1 Corinthians 14:40

God is not the Author of confusion but of peace and unity. He takes those who are poles apart on earth and brings them together in Christ, to belong to the same…

The Temptations of Christ

Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil.

Matthew 4:1

Three meanings attach themselves to the word tempt in the original language, as they do to our word in English. First, is the idea of…

E.M. Bounds on Prayer and Praying Men

Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God’s work. Only praying hearts and hands can do God’s work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails. Prayer has won great victories and rescued, with notable triumph, God’s saints when every other hope was gone. Men who know…

The Vine and the Branches

Today as a church family in International Baptist Church of Stuttgart, during our emphasis on prayer, we are praying for our adult ministries. Specific requests are for Pastor Kevin and Petra Opett, Adult Bible teachers, small group leaders, Women’s Ministry, Men’s Ministry.

Great Commission Christians

The 11 disciples traveled to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had directed them. When they saw Him, they worshiped, but some doubted. Then Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all…

Christ’s Answer

But He answered, “It is written: Man must not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”

Matthew 4:4

This verse is inscribed in a signature my home pastor placed for me in a book he authored. He chose it for several…

Willing to Spend and Be Spent

(Dr Baker James Cauthen, the former General Secretary of the International Mission Board, delivered this brief devotion to missionaries who were preparing to begin lives of service overseas. This devotional and others are found in Dr Cauthen’s book Beyond Call.)

True Unity

For this is what the high and lofty One says — He who lives forever, whose name is holy: “I live in a high and holy place, but also with him who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the spirit of the contrite:”

Through the Valley

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me.

Psalm 23:4

The psalmist knew that dark valleys lay ahead. He could not avoid the fact, and the same is true for us. We will go through…