Do you ever find yourself struggling to keep a focus upon Jesus? Have you ever left church on Sunday, and not long afterward felt your focus on the Kingdom of God start diminishing? I confess to you – this is too often my experience! And I believe if we are honest, we will ALL admit…
We conclude our series from Elder Mike Ivey’s article on the Sermon on the Mount today. It has truly been enlightening and convicting to me; I am thankful for this dear brother’s efforts in examining Jesus’ sayings and applying them to our times. I pray you have been blessed by this article, and further pray…
This will be the sixth, and next-to-last, installment of Elder Mike Ivey’s very timely article about the Sermon on the Mount. We have seen how important it is to KNOW about God, and therefore to learn about how He wants us to live. His commandments are not grievous, and indeed they promote our happiness (“blessedness”)…
In today’s post, we look at the fifth installment of an article by Elder Michael Ivey regarding the Sermon on the Mount, and how it applies to us today. I hope you enjoy these articles; they have been very convicting and enlightening for me! May the Lord bless you is my prayer. Elder Chris McCool,…
Today’s post will be the fourth in a series regarding the Sermon on the Mount. The full article was written by Elder Mike Ivey, and is an attempt to show us how relevant this Sermon is to us today – ESPECIALLY in a time when the world seeks to divide us in so many ways!…
This is the third in a series of posts about the Sermon on the Mount, taken from an article written by Elder Mike Ivey. As we have stated in previous posts, this article takes the Sermon on the Mount and applies it to our modern-day culture, which is filled with divisiveness and rancor. He reminds…
Last week, we began sharing an article by Elder Michael Ivey regarding the Sermon on the Mount. In this article, Bro. Mike takes the current issues facing the Lord’s church – in particular the divisiveness of the current political situation, and the pandemic that still afflicts us – and examines them in light of the…
This morning, I want to share with you the first part of an article by Elder Michael Ivey, regarding the Sermon on the Mount. I have often heard the Sermon on the Mount called the “Constitution of the Kingdom of God,” with good reason: it sets forth the basic principles by which the Kingdom of…
*Happy New Year! Due to the holiday, I was unable to publish MONDAY MINUTES on Monday; please forgive the delay. I pray you are blessed in 2022! In our last blog post, we discussed the purpose of the gospel, and we discovered that purpose to be to illuminate life, not to create life. Today, I…
In the last three editions of “MONDAY MINUTES”, we found that the new birth occurs apart from the hearing and acceptance of the gospel. However, the gospel nonetheless has an extremely important role in the life of a born-again child of God! So what is the purpose of the gospel? In 2 Tim. 1:9-10, Paul…
Previously we have considered Jesus’ use of analogies in John 3 to instruct us on regeneration. We saw that He used the womb, calling regeneration a “new birth” or being “born again.” This would have evoked images of natural childbirth in Nicodemus, and he would have understood that a man cannot cause his own spiritual…
*I apologize for last week’s absence; I was out of town, and unable to post Monday Minutes. Today is the second part of the previous post from November 29, 2021.* In our last edition of Monday Minutes, we saw that Jesus often used natural phenomena to illustrate spiritual truths. He never played “hide the ball”…
