When life becomes difficult, how do you maintain your relationship with God? For some, when life goes from sweet to sour, we may be tempted to throw away our allegiance to God. It becomes easy to validate our sins because we have deemed God to be unfair and/or unloving. It is a rare thing, a truly commendable thing, when the follower of God stands by God and His moral, religious, and personal expectations. It is far too tempting to rip away our cord from Him when it seems tha

One of the most esteemed and exclusive rights one could hold in the first century was Roman citizenship. With Roman citizenship came several exclusive rights, privileges not afforded to all of the Roman Empire, but only to a select number. Some of these rights included the right not to be tortured, the right to a defense in a court, and also the right to plead your case directly to Caesar. Paul was a Roman citizen, as evidenced in Acts 22:25, which explains the events that fo

I know this may seem like an obvious statement, but Paul wrote essential teachings for the church. I say it is obvious, because it is the inspired Word of God (2 Tim 3:16-17), the Word which makes you wise unto salvation (2 Tim 3:15). Within the Word is the power of salvation (Rom 1:16). It transmits doctrine, what is right, and what is not right. It transmits correction on how to get right and how to stay right. It transmits all things pertaining to life and godliness (2 Pet