Happy New Year!
We hope you and your family are having a blessed and relaxing holiday season, and we pray for the Lord’s blessings on all of us for what looks like an exciting 2017. We are just about back to full health, we’re grateful to say, and we appreciate your prayers andContinue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #132: Ecclesiastes
ANOTHER BOOK of wisdom attributed to Solomon is our Old Testament study this week. The collected sayings of “the Preacher” are generally gloomy, but only in that they remind us of the folly of pursuing material things apart from God.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #131: Colossians, Philemon, Ephesians 1–4
LETTERS FROM Paul in Rome are the focus of this week’s New Testament study, and there is a lot of meat here. Paul addressed errant teachings that threatened to undermine the gospel of salvation by grace through faith at Colossae and Ephesus.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #130: Proverbs 25-29
PROVERBS OF Solomon copied at the direction of King Hezekiah are the focus of our Old Testament study this week. Themes include the wisdom of accepting correction, the foolishness of contending with fools, and the happiness that results from pursuing righteousness instead of wealth.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #129: Acts 24–28
PAUL TRAVELED to Rome in A.D. 60, but not the way he would have wanted.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #128: Psalms 134, 146-150; 2 Chr 8; 1 Kings 9
PRAISE THE Lord! That’s the theme of the Psalms in today’s Old Testament study. We examine a half dozen psalms of praise and find divine council language, making it clear that the psalmists knew that other gods existed, but only one God, Yahweh, created all the rest.Continue Reading