Ring of Truth

Disobedience leads to consequences. Either you are following the Lord and receiving His grace and blessings, or you are disobeying His commandments. Today Pastor Dan shares, that no amount of good luck, open doors, or internal peace means your disobedience is okay. Realize that Satan can give you favorable circumstances, the green light, or just the right excuses for not following God's will. But...

Jonah is primarily known for spending three days in the belly of a fish. But what Pastor Dan wants you to remember is what happens when you go against God's will. Jonah was the only profit in the Bible to go against God's call, and then he ended up in the belly of a fish. What's going to happen when you go against the Lord? You probably won't be swallowed up, but you will face consequences. The tr...

Pastor Dan shares a hard truth in today's study. The Lord wants everyone to come to Christ and be saved. No matter how evil the individual is, salvation is available to them. Every adulterer or murderer; any sinner can come to Christ and receive forgiveness for their transgression. Anyone who judges these people and believes they don't deserve salvation is self-righteous. God doesn't wish for any...

As a Christian, living in a sinful world will be a challenge for you. Humans consist of both flesh and spirit, and if our spirit and our flesh duke it out, the flesh will win. The spirit may be willing, but the flesh is weak. Well Today Pastor Dan will continue reading through the book of Obadiah, where you will learn that because our physical bodies can perish, but our souls cannot, we can still...

It's better to be humble than to have a superiority complex. Pride not only brings your downfall but also makes you look foolish in the process. But proud people realize this too late, only when they face a grave situation in life and the experience teaches them a valuable lesson. Well Today Pastor Dan will continue reading through the book of Obadiah, where you will see Obadiah's prophesy come tr...

Edom was a wealthy and powerful nation. With so many traders passing through their well-defended territory, the Edomites saw themselves as "untouchable" in the region. And in their arrogance, they defied God at every corner. And when the Israelites needed their help, they turned them away. Well Today Pastor Dan will be reading through the book of Obadiah where he prophesies the destruction of the...

Today God’s Word is so widely available, that it’s hard to understand how rare it was in the past, or how scarce God’s Word might be in the future. What can you do In preparation for a future where you can't access a bible so easily? Well Today Pastor Dan will be reading through the book of Amos, where you will see the people of Israel suppress the truth and reject God's Word, and so God gives the...

Sometimes when a project or a job is too distorted and crooked, the only option left is to take it apart and start from scratch. Today Pastor Dan will be reading through the book of Amos, where you will see the prophet Amos being given a vision of a plumb line which would become the symbol of the standard by which God's people would need to live. The people of Israel were so deep with sin, so far...

The fact that God disciplines those he loves seems to go against what we want. Why on Earth would you want to be punished by God and how can God love you if He wants to punish you right? It seems like an oxymoron. But remember that God chastens in proportion to His love. And Today Pastor Dan will be reading through the book of Amos, where you will see that God Disciplines and chastises those He lo...

The idea of rest isn’t all bad. Jesus wants to give you rest. Rest is waiting for the people of God in heaven. But there is another kind of rest, a sinful kind of rest connected to indifference, laziness, and indulgence, and it should be avoided at all costs. Today Pastor Dan will be reading through the book of Amos, where you will see the Israelites laugh at the so-called Judgment of God because...

Patiently keeping silent does not mean passive quietism, it may mean active resistance to evil, or non-cooperation with evil. Today Pastor Dan will be reading through the book of Amos, where you will see that it's important to remain prudent in times of great evil. In such times your voice might be more actions instead of words. You have to seek the good and live it out, in order to reestablish ju...

What does it mean to seek God? To truly seek God means seeking good, doing justice and righteousness, worshiping Him in the right way, and seeking His word. Today Pastor Dan will be reading through the book of Amos, where you will see examples of God’s justice and judgment for the Israelites. And how Amos had a particular message for Israel that God assigned him to preach among them, which was “Se...

If you’re given a warning about a tornado that’s been sighted, but you disregard it, it’s only natural that you’re in the path of destruction. It would be foolish to ignore the warning signs and assume you’ll be just fine. In a similar way, Pastor Dan talks today about God’s warnings of judgment, and how God’s people continued living in their wicked ways, not taking what God promised seriously. Th...

As a parent, you don’t enjoy giving consequences to your children. You don’t delight or get pleasure in seeing their pain or their disappointment. But there are times when it’s necessary for something to sting, to get their attention, and to turn their hard heart back to a soft, moldable place. This was God’s intent with the judgments that came for His people. It didn’t give God enjoyment to see t...

If you were taken by force and were in bondage to human trafficking, you’d never forget the person or the organization that rescued you out of that lifestyle and set you free in a new kind of life, apart from that horrible existence. Did you realize that it’s exactly the same way when God rescues you from your sinful lifestyle and sets you free from that bondage? Today, Pastor Dan helps you see th...

When you look at your nation today, do you feel like it has fallen into the same trap as nations before? You’re not far off from the truth! Today, Pastor Dan mentions that when a nation falls away from appreciating and following God and His Word, there’s sure to be a downfall. It’s happened time and time again. So history tends to repeat itself. Today, you’ll hear about how God’s own people were j...

Have you noticed in current times, but also in the course of history, that nations that don’t value human life also don’t follow the God of the Bible? It’s a recurring pattern that when the One true God is not even a thought in a nation’s mind, they end up devaluing human life. How sad! In today’s teaching, Pastor Dan helps you see that whether or not a nation or a person believes in God, they wil...

When you throw someone from the back-woods and insert them into an urban, thriving, fast-moving setting like New York City, that person would feel like a fish out of water. Have you ever been in a similar situation where you feel so out of place? In today’s teaching, Pastor Dan will help you understand what this was like for a prophet named Amos, called out of his comfort zone, to the other kingdo...

Sometimes in a book or a movie, you just want to get past all the bad stuff and get to the ending, where it hopefully resolves or makes everything else make sense. But it takes going through those difficult things to further appreciate the resolution. In today’s teaching, Pastor Dan gets further into the details of what the day of the Lord means and what God’s purpose is in bringing justice to the...

There are situations where you’re not looking for a fight. But if someone breaks into your home, looking to hurt your family, there’s no question that you’re going to fight, and maybe even kill someone in self-defense. Well today, pastor Dan’s teaching is an interesting one, where it’s talking about God being in this position, where He’s going to fight the enemy. He’s defending His people, and He’...

Many tragic events have occurred to the Jewish people over the centuries. It started with them being slaves in Egypt. Then there’s that infamous situation with Haman and Esther, where they were plotted against, to be annihilated. One can never erase the fact that the Holocaust of the 20th century was deplorable and inhumane. Why is the world out to get the Jews? Today, Pastor Dan explains that thi...

When you go to a county fair, there are mazes or “fun houses” that have all kinds of crazy routes of confusion. You start to see things through distorted mirrors. People might start jumping out at you and startling you, breaking your train of thought. Well today, Pastor Dan expresses something that may be unpopular with some. But he’ll give you a good understanding of Scripture about the purpose o...

When you overhear some people speaking in Chinese, you can appreciate such a different sounding language, but you have no clue what they’re saying! So it doesn’t really help you out in communicating with those people, because you’re excluded in a language sense. Now think of a special spiritual language that’s spoken, but you still don’t understand. It really does you no good! Today, Pastor Dan sp...

Have you ever been in competition with someone and you feel like you have to “one-up” them by doing something even better or stronger than what they can do? This seems to creep into the church too when it comes to spiritual gifts. Today, Pastor Dan helps you see that spiritual gifts are not something you achieve; they’re given to you by God! So if you happen to have a gifting that’s different than...

Do the gifts of the Spirit make a difference in your life? Have you thought about them at all in, say, the last week? Pastor Dan reminds us today that our attitude toward the gifts of the Spirit should be to earnestly desire them. We are to burn with zeal for the gifts of the Spirit. Why do you think that is? When we are desiring the gifts of the Spirit, we move closer to the Spirit. We move in st...