To enter the kingdom a man must be born again — begotten by the Spirit through the word and delivered through the water of baptism; “born of water and the Spirit” is not natural birth and not a direct, wordless work of the Spirit, but the…
Salvation is in Christ, and to be in Christ is to be in His body, the church; therefore no one — however good — is saved outside the church, because every saving blessing God gives is found only there. This question makes people uncomfortable, and it…
When God’s people borrow the world’s religious vocabulary, they soon borrow the world’s religious ideas; faithfulness therefore requires that we hold the pattern of sound words and call Bible things by Bible names. This is a lesson about words, and someone will object that words are…
The sin that struck Ananias and Sapphira dead was not stinginess and not even mere lying to men; it was hypocrisy before God — the loss of the sense that God inspects the heart — and that sin is as deadly to a congregation now as…
The Lord chose twelve very different men to lay the foundation of His church, and in their variety He teaches every congregation that He has a place and a work for every kind of faithful disciple. We are tempted to look at the apostles as giants…
A study from Luke 2:34–35; Matthew 26:26–30; Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 11:23–29 on Worship. Ed Rangel examines the New Testament pattern for the local church and its scriptural foundation.
From Lamentations 3:31–33; 1 Corinthians 10:1–12, Ed Rangel encourages faithful Christian living, exploring Repentance and the call to walk worthy of the Gospel.
The resurrection of the dead is a single, universal, bodily, and final act of Christ’s authority in which every person will rise at His voice—some to life, and the rest to judgment.
Christ is not divided, and His people must not build their spiritual identity around men, parties, camps, or movements. This lesson confronts sectarian thinking and calls believers back to belonging to Christ alone under the authority of Scripture.
A church can lose a soul long before their name leaves the directory. James 5 warns that a Christian can stray from the truth and forfeit their soul, making it the church’s urgent duty to pursue, warn, and restore the wandering before drift becomes destruction.