Prayer begins and ends not with the needs of man but with the glory of God
Plenty of tolerant people out there say, Okay, you’re into this cross thing, and Jesus being crucified, and that’s your truth. Good for you—we are an inclusive people. You’re welcome to your foolish v...
Nowhere is that discipline and hard work more demanding and rewarding than in determining the central idea and structure of a passage. In this brief discussion only a few basic ideas can be developed,...
None other than the Skeptic’s Dictionary points out an obvious and troubling irony: When spoken by schizophrenics, glossolalia is recognized as gibberish. In charismatic Christian communities glossola...
No spiritual exercise is such a blending of complexity and simplicity. It is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can try, yet the sublimest strains that reach the Majesty on high. It is as ap...
No one is perfect—there are always going to be little things that people disagree about. Nevertheless, we should always get on our knees together and seek to maintain the unity of the Spirit and the b...
New Testament teaching does not focus on reforming and restructuring human systems, which are never the root cause of human problems. The issue is always the heart of man—which when wicked will corrup...
Naomi's return caused no small stir. Scripture says, All the city was excited because of them; and the women said, Is this Naomi? Naomi means pleasant, and in an earlier time it must have been a perfe...
Most women were treated as nothing more than lowly slaves or animals, and husbands often bought, traded, or even disposed of their wives at will.
La verdadera humildad fluye de una perspectiva de Dios correcta.
La verdadera felicidad en la vida resulta de la transformación de sus procesos de pensamiento. Colosenses 1.16 dice que «todo fue creado por medio de él y para él». Esto lo incluye a usted. Puesto que...
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.
If the disciples had their eyes set on great prominence and high rewards in eternity, they had to know the path to that end is marked by great suffering and endurance.
I read a story years ago that claimed to be about the most insignificant person ever born. His mother wrote his name on the birth certificate as Nosmo King. Somebody asked the mother where she got a n...
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 Word is sufficient, comprehensive, completely without error, and able to meet every need and fulfill the desires of every heart. If we obey it, we will be blessed in whatever we do.
God saved His chosen people for the sake of His name, that He might make His power known (Ps. 106:8).
El verdadero evangelio es un llamado a negarse a uno mismo. No es un llamado a la autorrealización. Eso lo pone contra la proclamación contemporánea del evangelio, en la que los ministros ven a Jesús...