Topic: Christian Living

How can we make friends for God and share our faith with others? How powerful can a personal testimony be? Why? How much should we share? How did Mary,Peter, John, and Paul use their testimonies to reach others and witness to the world? Is a personal testimony always convincing? Why does a changed life matter? What if your testimony wasn't like Paul's?

How can we live by the Word of God? How can we spend time with God and why is spending that time so important? What emphasis did Jesus place on knowing and understanding scripture while He was here on earth? How can we make God our teacher when we study the Bible? How can music help us commit to memory what God says in His Word?

Is the history of the Bible reliable? Did people like Jesus, David, Solomon, Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar, Abraham, or Moses really live? How can archaeology address the claims of secular critics that the Bible is a myth or work of fantasy? How do we know the events really happened or that these people really lived? How is higher criticism playing a role in secular public education shaping the minds of our youth today?

Why do we need to interpret scripture? Is there a right or wrong way? Can scripture be understood correctly? What is hermeneutics? What biases might we have in culture, language, presuppositions, or our personal lives that make it difficult to understand the Bible in its proper context? How does our sinful and fallen nature play a role? Who was the first revisionist?

Are there times when faithfulness to God and your responsibilities in secular matters can lead to jealousy? Are there people who conspire against you when you do the right thing? Daniel finds himself in the lions den as King Darius makes an ill-advised law that requires Daniel to choose between God and the king. Daniel would have to choose between his conscience or his faith. Are we sometimes put in these situations today? How can we respond? How does God respond?

What does it mean to stand for your faith? How could someone forget God after an encounter with God? How does faith grow? How does the experience of the 3 Hebrews connect with the experience of God's people in the end times and religious liberty? Should worship be forced?

How do you keep your faith when you’re surrounded by ideas, philosophy, another religion, and people that are antagonistic to what you believe? The three Hebrews and Daniel’s obedience, even in small things, led to gaining favor and influence while he was a captive in Babylon. God is sovereign over history and cares about His people.

What can we learn from the story of David and his temptation about how we can avoid temptation today? How does this powerful story about God's forgiveness give sinners hope today? Are some in the church carrying burdens that need to be released and given to God?

How do marriages impact spirituality? What's so wrong with unequally yoked marriages? If someone sins through being unequally yoked, what are the consequences for the individual? What about the nation? Christians today? Was Nehemiah too harsh in his approach? Why did Paul address this differently? Why does God want spiritual compatibility? Was this about nationality or faith?

John Spellman preaches on Transformative Acceptance. In an age where so many are looking for acceptance how can we define what acceptance is? What should it look like in the church? For what purpose does God accept those who come to Him? What is transformation?

How did God encourage the Jews to rebuild even in times of great opposition? What role did Haggai, Zecharaiah, Nehemiah, Ezra, Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and others play? What lessons about ministry and working for God can we learn from their story?

How is the church to serve the community? Is there a difference between acts of compassion and preaching the gospel in the context of the 3rd angel’s message? Or do both go together? How should members of the church treat one another? Why? How can we better be unified and work together? How does justice, grace, and love tie in to all that we do?