A Unique Believers Manual. For those who want to learn the TRUTH of what God is saying in His Word.

   Who Do We Worship? There is a question that every generation must answer, and it is not merely a political question. It is a spiritual question. It is not only about elections, laws, presidents, or parties. It reaches much deeper than that. The question is this: Who sits on the throne of the human heart? Throughout history, mankind has struggled with that question. Every empire, every kingdom, every government, and every civilization has faced the same temptation. Human beings are created to worship. God built that desire into us. The problem is not whether mankind will worship. The problem is what mankind will worship. The Creator or the creation. The eternal God or temporary power. The One who gives life or the systems that merely manage life. The Bible tells us: “You shall have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3 God did not give this command because He needed human praise. God is not lacking anything. He gave this command because He knows the human hear...

A Cacophony of Names: Moses’ Father-in-Law, Who Was This Man? Have you ever started reading a passage of Scripture and suddenly stopped because you thought, “Wait a minute... who are we talking about now?” Moses’ father-in-law is one of those moments. He appears in Scripture with several names, and if we are not careful, we can feel like we are trying to keep track of characters in a very large family reunion where everyone has more than one name tag. Was he Reuel ? Was he Jethro ? Was he Hobab ? Was someone in the family changing names every time Moses picked up a scroll? Probably not. The confusion comes more from our modern way of thinking about names than from the ancient Hebrew world. So, let’s grab our coffee and sit down with the Scriptures and sort through this “cacophony of names.” The First Name We Meet: Reuel When Moses fled from Egypt after killing the Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew slave, he arrived in the land of Midian. There he helped the daughters of a Midianit...

  Before we ask what "god" we worship, we must first examine the heart, because Scripture tells us to guard it with all diligence. The heart is where worship begins. Whatever we place there above God will eventually shape the direction of our lives When someone asks, "Do you worship idols?" most people quickly answer, "No." In their minds, an idol is a carved statue made of wood, stone, or gold. They imagine people bowing before images as the nations did in Bible times. Since they have never done that, they assume idolatry has nothing to do with them. But God looks deeper than what our hands are doing. He looks at the heart. When the Lord gave Israel the Ten Commandments, His very first command was, “ Thou shalt have no other "god"s before me” (Exodus 20:3) . Before He spoke about murder, stealing, adultery, or lying, He spoke about worship. Why? Because whatever sits upon the throne of the heart will eventually influence everything else we do...