By Bob Schneiter on 12/13/2009

Romans 6: 1-2 

 

          One of the 64,000 thousand dollar questions in Scripture is, what is meant by

II Corinthians 6:14 ff.: “Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can goodness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? What harmony can there be between Christ and the Devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever? And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said, ‘I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be My people. Therefore,...

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By Bob Schneiter on 12/6/2009

Luke 1:8-20; I Corinthians 1:18-23 

          Last Sunday, we talked about the simplicity surrounding the birth of Christ. It didn’t take place in Jerusalem, the logical place. His birth announcement didn’t hit the newsstands the next morning. Heads of state did not visit. The Magi, or wise men found in a little village in plain surroundings, and they worshiped Him simply and with lack of adornment. Here is an important principle…the simpler and less cluttered our approach to God the more likely we are to be enthralled with His power and majesty rather than distracted by man’s inventiveness....

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By Bob Schneiter on 11/29/2009

Romans 5:21 

          While we are “...dead in our trespasses and sin” (Ephesians 2:1), we are also blind to the things of God. Paul explains this clearly to the Corinthians in the second chapter of his first letter: “The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they sound like foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually discerned.” When Christ comes into our lives, being able to see what God sees begins. It is a slow process and directly related to the time we spend in God’s Word, in prayer conversation with...

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