by Matthew Borgstrom | Feb 18, 2018 | Bible Exposition, Bible Study, Marriage
We must consider our marriage as incredibly bigger and more significant than just the union of two people. God’s purposes transcend the personal fulfillment of two people in marriage. Do you view how you serve, talk, act and even think about your spouse with a...
by Matthew Borgstrom | Feb 11, 2018 | Bible Exposition, Bible Study, Church Leadership, Deacons
Now as we have been introducing this subject of deacon qualifications, some of you might be thinking: “I don’t have any plans to become a deacon, so why do I need to hear these things?” There are at least a few reasons: First, as we work through these qualifications,...
by Matthew Borgstrom | Feb 4, 2018 | Bible Exposition, Bible Study, Word of God
In thinking about this statement at the end of Acts 6:2, we must realize that the apostles have a very unique calling regarding the word of God, as laid out in John 14-16, so if they get sidetracked from their responsibilities, even by a good thing like tangibly...
by Matthew Borgstrom | Jan 28, 2018 | Bible Exposition, Bible Study
How is it that the apostles leave rejoicing in 5:41, after getting beaten and ordered to be silent? That can’t be right. The scribes of our Bible translations must have gotten that wrong and there has to be a discrepancy of different words among the manuscripts,...
by Matthew Borgstrom | Jan 21, 2018 | Bible Exposition, Bible Study, Holiness
Any man-centered thinking brought to the biblical text blows a fuse at Acts 5. Why did God treat the lying of Ananias and Sapphira as such a threat? What’s really at stake here? Would anyone else even know? It’s hard to say. Would anyone be hurt be this...
