Serious About Scripture

Mentoring and motivating Christ’s people to live his words

Two More Ways to Bless Others by Reading the Bible to Them

I hope you are part of a church that includes “the public reading of Scripture” (1 Timothy 4:13) at its main weekly meeting. Family worship is also a common setting for reading Scripture out loud to others. In both of these settings, both the reader and the hearers are, as John wrote about the public reading of Revelation, “blessed” (Rev. 1:3). What follows are two additional ways we can experience this blessing as readers and also bless others.  First, read…

Paul and Prayer: Colossians 4:12-13

Colossians 4:12-13 “Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God. For I bear him witness that he has worked hard for you and for those in Laodicea and in Hierapolis.” Epaphras was, according to the Apostle Paul, the person who started the church at Colossae. This was his hometown, situated about 100 miles…

George Muller on Prevailing Prayer

My life and ministry has been guided significantly by the insights God gave George Muller in the 1800s. Here is his answer concerning what is necessary in prayer. He stated that he had seen over 50,000 answers to prayer, 30,000 in the day or hour they had been requested. Let’s take his counsel. Note: I’m unable to connect this graphic to its source.

Powerfully Kept

I’ve seen a few extremely powerful things. I once watched a tornado whirling debris on the lawn as it rose up and passed just beside our house. I know that it was insane to be outside watching, but power is intriguing. I’ve been in a tropical storm on the Florida coast, packed and ready to leave in an instant if it accelerated to a hurricane. I’ve felt the ground rumbling while watching a space shuttle launch, and I’ve circled three…