Posts from November 2019

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Pleasing God by Preaching the Gospel

by Don Wright

Jesus told His original disciples that He was going to make them fishers of men. That has al-ways been the purpose for those called by the gospel. Preaching the gospel is one of our primary responsibilities as Christians. If we want to please God, we have to do His will, and preaching the gospel is […]

Pleasing God by Being Holy

by Don Wright

All Christians should desire to please God. The real question, however, is are we actually pleasing Him? Saying that we want to, and really doing it, are two different matters. In our last blog we emphasized pleasing God by put Him first in our lives (Matthew 6:33). Something else we must do in order to […]

Pleasing God by Putting Him First

by Don Wright

What is most important in your life? As Christians, it should not take us that long to answer this question. Our immediate response should be God. Doing God’s will and pleasing Him should be at the top of our priority list. After all, that was first on the list of the One Whom we are […]

Beware of Hypocrisy

by Don Wright

Luke 12:1 (ESV) 1 In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. In another place Jesus referred to the teaching of the Pharisees as their “leaven” […]