Week 32: Alien

by Advocates International | Oct 19, 2020 | What Does the Lord Require of You? | 0 comments

All these people were still living by faith when they died.  They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance.  And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth.  Hebrews 11:13   Dear friends, I urge...

Week 31: Being Remembered

by Advocates International | Oct 12, 2020 | What Does the Lord Require of You? | 0 comments

“Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”  Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth today you will be with me in paradise.”  Luke 23:43   For, “All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and...

Week 30: Money and Priorities

by Advocates International | Oct 5, 2020 | What Does the Lord Require of You? | 0 comments

Consider how the lilies grow.  They do not labor or spin.  Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.  If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more...

Week 29: “Nehushtan”

by Advocates International | Sep 29, 2020 | What Does the Lord Require of You? | 0 comments

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole.  Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived.  Numbers 21:9   He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the groves, and broke in pieces the brazen...

Week 28: A Claim in the Alternative: “But if not…”

by Advocates International | Sep 21, 2020 | What Does the Lord Require of You? | 0 comments

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter.  If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O...

Week 27: Truth and Love

by Advocates International | Sep 14, 2020 | What Does the Lord Require of You? | 0 comments

Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.  I Corinthians 13:6 Let us consider some principles drawn from biblical texts. First, Love is the context in which truth is communicated. “Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the...

Week 26: Captured Thoughts, Part 2

by Advocates International | Sep 8, 2020 | What Does the Lord Require of You? | 0 comments

Background Reading: II Corinthians 10:1-5 We demolish arguments and every pretention that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. II Corinthians 10:5 As we consider this text again, let us consider...

Week 25: Captured Thoughts, Part 1

by Advocates International | Sep 3, 2020 | What Does the Lord Require of You? | 0 comments

Background: II Corinthians 10:1-5 We demolish arguments and every pretention that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. II Corinthians 10:5 Building on what we considered about truth in the...

Week 24: What is Truth?

by Advocates International | Aug 17, 2020 | What Does the Lord Require of You? | 0 comments

Background Reading: Isaiah 59   So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.  Truth is nowhere to be found and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey.  Isaiah 59:14-15b Is this the...

Week 23: Mr. Holland’s Opus

by Advocates International | Aug 5, 2020 | What Does the Lord Require of You? | 0 comments

Background: Luke 12:16-21   And he said, “This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, though hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat,...