Asaph must have been a parent.

How can we guess this? Because we can hear the determination in the Psalm-writer's voice when it comes to sharing the word of God with the next generation. The emotion here is so strong, it certainly appears to have been personal for Asaph.

And it may well have been a key motivation for his authoring...

This is the age-old debate. Is Jesus enough? Or do we need to add something of our own?

Paul and Barnabas were dealing with some people who had come into their home congregation in Antioch to teach the people that Jesus was not enough. They told the people in Antioch, “Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom...

God's word has an amazing quality. It's very nature is to spread.

In that way, it's not unlike a bottle of perfume in a room. Once you open that bottle, the fragrance -- by its very nature -- will spread throughout the room.

Paul and Barnabas were going from town to town on their first missionary journey. In each town they told...

Every person has their strengths and weaknesses. Thank God for those strengths! And man, how those weaknesses can challenge and threaten everything!

Solomon was a man whose wisdom was an astoundingly big strength. God specially blessed him when Solomon asked him for wisdom at the beginning of his reign as king. As a result of that...

The basic meaning of repentance is "a change of mind."

Repentance is what began to happen with Gentiles as the apostles moved out beyond Jerusalem and shared the gospel with non-Jews. God clearly wanted this. He even sent an angel to be the set-up person so that Peter could meet the Roman centurion Cornelius.

But when Peter shared...