I’ve read and reread William Tyndale, David Daniells’s substantial biography. Thomas More was a great defender of Roman Catholicism in England, and he felt himself the servant of God in taking on Will...
I’ve always believed that if a leader takes care of the present task with all his power, the future will open up for greater opportunities. Living in the fantasy of those future opportunities, however...
It must be emphasized that the expositor does not make a message out of a passage. Rather, he interacts with the contextual material until the message of the author emerges.
It is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition. There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christian pe...
It is a sad twist of irony that those who claim to be most focused on the Holy Spirit are in actuality the ones doing the most to abuse, grieve, insult, misrepresent, quench, and dishonor Him. How do...
In spite of their gross theological error, charismatics demand acceptance within mainstream evangelicalism. And evangelicals have largely succumbed to those demands, responding with outstretched arms...
If you suffer for the truth of the gospel, and you will, remember you’re in good company. You’re following the best example who ever served God; you are on the Lord’s side, casting off self-righteousn...
If we do not seek to see the entire scope of God’s actions and character, we will tend to gravitate to what we like or don’t like and miss the connections. The
If we are faithfully walking the path of discipleship daily, we will be aware of all the possible consequences of obedience. When that’s true, no circumstance of suffering will meet us as a total surp...
If it is performed in a formal or customary and overly manner, you would be as good to omit it altogether; for the Lord takes our prayers not by number but by weight. When it is an outward picture, a...
I am a free man, the slave of Christ;
Human nature really hasn’t changed much throughout history; shame and honor were as big a deal in the ancient world as they are today. Back in the ninth century B.C., the epic poet Homer wrote, The ch...
Human intellect plays no role in redemption.
His sinless life furnishes the perfect righteousness we lack.
He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Belov...
God’s greatest desire, and our greatest need, is to be in constant fellowship with Him now, and
God's objective and historically past revelation in Scripture cannot be understood accurately apart from the present, personal, and subjective work of the Holy Spirit. Illumination, which applies only...
God has thoughts of love in all He does to His people. The ground of His dealings with us is love (though the occasion may be sin), the manner of His dealings is love, and the purpose of His dealings...
Es una lucha muy seria para guardar el corazón y el alma de la verdad misma y para desatar esa verdad en contra de los poderes de la oscuridad, con la esperanza de rescatar las almas eternas de los ho...
El «mucho servicio» de Marta era una distracción (Lucas 10.40) de «aquello» (v. 42) que era realmente necesario: escuchar a y aprender de Jesús. A