One scholar wrote this about the Word of God:

It is impossible to accept Christ’s authority without accepting Scripture’s authority, and vice versa. They stand together. To accept Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord is to accept what He taught about Scripture as binding. To be a kingdom citizen is to accept what the King says about God’s Word. To have a kingdom character and a kingdom testimony is to obey the king’s manifesto, the Scripture’s authority is Christ’s authority, and to obey the Lord is to obey His Word. “He who is of God hears the words of God” (John 8:47). To trust in Christ is to say of Him as Peter did. “You have the words of eternal life” (John 6:68).

John MacArthur writes this on parenting:

Ephesians 6:4 says, “And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.” The mistake too many parents make is that they think godly training will happen by itself in a Christian family. It won’t. Parents are to lead by example, carefully and in a planned way. Their responsibilities include training, instructing, nurturing and disciplining their children according to the way of the Lord, while at the same time not goading their children to anger.

Parents are the key to each children’s spiritual growth. Every person is born with a bent to sin, and depravity will take over, unless its grip on a child is broken by regeneration. The child must be “born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever” (1 Peter 1:23). Scripture’s instructions to parents suggest that the best environment in which to nurture the seed of God’s Word for our children in a loving environment of discipline.

Most of us are familiar with the concept of urgency. It has to do with something that needs immediate attention because of its gravity. One of the challenges facing evangelical Christianity is that we do not seem to feel it is urgent to reach people for Christ. This despite an explicit effort from Jesus to generate such urgency. Check this out by reading Luke 16:19-28.

There is much debate among theologians, but if you take Scripture in a straightforward way, it sure seems that God has a few promises to keep in regards to ethnic Israel. Check out these passages that speak of God being faithful to Israel even though they are unfaithful to Him:Isaiah 41:17;49:13-16;54:5-8;60:15-16;62:11-12;Psalm 89:30-37:Leviticus 26:44;Jeremiah31:3-37; and Romans11:1-2. God does not seem to be done with Israel. Look carefully at Deuteronomy 30:3-10; Isaiah 35:10; 43:5-7;51:11;Jeremiah 30:1-2;32:37-42;Ezekiel 36:24,28;37:13-14; and Amos:13-14. In the New Testament, Acts 1:1-4 speaks of Jesus speaking of “things pertaining to the kingdom of God.” Then in Acts 1:6-8, Jesus does not correct their understanding of the coming kingdom for Israel, He simply tells them to get the message out and not worry about when it is going to happen.

The word for “head” in the New Testament is the Greek word kephale.The debate is over whether the word means “person in authority” or simply means “source”. Wayne Grudem looked up all 2,236 references of this word in ancient Greek literature, using texts from Homer in the eighth century B.C. up to the church fathers in the fourth century A.D. He found that in those texts the word kephale was applied to many people in authority but it was never applied to a person without governing authority.The question then is this:Why should we give kephale in the New Testament a sense other than a “person in authority” when it is never used that way in other Greek literature. Also, when applied to persons, no Greek lexicon has ever given any other meaning to the word kephale.

As you think of what a great church would look like, Ken Boa writes this about the church in Thessalonica. “The church in Thessalonica was in many ways a model church. Paul had many things to commend the believers for: their exemplary faith, diligent service, patient steadfastness, and overflowing joy. But in the midst of his commendation, Paul voices a voice of caution. Abounding in the work of the Lord is only one step removed from abandoning the work of the Lord through complacency. Thus, Paul exhorts the Thessalonians to excel in their faith, to increase in their love for one another, and to give thanks always for all things. In short, Paul encourages them to “stay on target” as they labor for the Lord.”

John Piper writes this about worship.
It is a biblical goal and norm for Christians to be a part of worship gatherings where the word of the cross is preached. God ordains this for our joy. Studying the word of God is good. Meditation is good. Discussion is good. Analyzing and explaining is good. But preaching is also good, and God calls us to enjoy the blessing that comes to us when the word of the cross explodes in the heart of a godly preacher and overflows in exultation to the minds and hearts of a worshipping people. The fight for joy loses one of its weapons when it does not regularly hear the gospel preached. God can make it up to us in other ways. But preaching is one precious gift of God to the church. When it exults over “the word of the cross,” it becomes “to us who are being saved…the power of God” (1 Cor 1:18)

Clearly, prayer is an area where believers experience spiritual warfare. Our spiritual enemy is fully aware of the power and promises available to us in prayer. He knows that every major spiritual revival began with prayer. He knows we are all called to be “praying menaces” to his cause. Therefore, he fights us from every angle to keep us from praying effectively. The devil launches his weapons of mass distraction to keep us too preoccupied with other things to take time to really connect with God. He bombards us with fiery darts of doubt to keep us from praying in faith to the One who is “a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6). Our enemy seeks to discourage us at every turn because he is threatened by believers and congregations that take prayer seriously and pursue Christ passionately.

As far as my understanding, the science on the homosexual gene Xq28 is still debateable. However, even if it is determined that there is such a gene (though I still have my doubts), it would not destroy the Christian faith. The source of evil in the world is the sin gene. We are sinners not because we sin but we sin because we are sinners. We have a sin nature handed down to us from the sin of Adam. We are however responsible for our own sin. If a person had the murder gene or gossip gene, they would still be responsible to control their actions. A tendency toward a certain behavior because of nurture or nature still demands that the person be responsibe for their behavior. Jesus Christ came to take the penalty for all of our sinful behavior as well as set us free from the power that sin has over us.

Here is a good start:

John 1:1 – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:14 – “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
John 5:18 – “For this cause therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.”
John 8:24 - “I said therefore to you, that you shall die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you shall die in your sins.”
Note: In the Greek, “He” is not there.
John 8:58 – “Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.’”
Exodus 3:14 – “And God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM’; and He said, Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
John 10:30-33 – “I and the Father are one.” 31 The Jews took up stones again to stone Him. 32 Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?” 33 The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God.”
John 20:28 – “Thomas answered and said to Him, “My Lord and my God!”
Col. 2:9 – “For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form.”
Phil. 2:5-8 - “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Heb. 1:8 – “But of the Son He says, “Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the righteous scepter is the scepter of His kingdom.”
Quoted from Psalm 45:6, “Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever; a scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Thy kingdom.”