2023 

Bobby Gums    

How was your 2022? Was the “year” good to you? I certainly hope & pray that each of you can truly look back and say that it was a “good time” in your life, meaning that you drew closer to the Lord than ever before, that the fruit of the Spirit is increasing in your life, that you are indeed becoming more & more like Christ Jesus, and all to God’s glory. In the “natural”, I can certainly understand

 

                 SCRIPTURE STUDY: THE MARRIAGE COVENANT                                        

I    THE FOUNDATION

As a mature and fruit-bearing apple tree was fully contained in the seed of its origin, so is the full of

Scripture contained in the Book of Genesis. We may call it the “Seed Book of the Bible.”

So it is with all creation relative to the first verse of Genesis. All that heaven and earth presently are developed from that one seed act:

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

And, so it is that the first marriage sets

 

SCRIPTURE STUDY: WATER BAPTISM

The apostle Peter stood before a multitude gathered at Jerusalem for the feast of Pentecost. His message closed an old era and ushered in a new. He finished his discourse in this way:

Acts 2:37-42

37 Now when they heard this [Peter's preaching; Acts 2:14-37], they were pricked [convicted] in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?                                                                                                                                           38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and