J. I. Packer has written, The repentance that Christ requires of His people consists in a settled refusal to set any limit to the claims which He may make on their lives.17
It means absolutely nothing to profess Christ if your life doesn’t back it up. That’s why Peter said that if you can’t add virtue to your faith, you’re not going to know if you’re actually redeemed (s...
In his classic commentary on the Bible, Puritan author Matthew Henry wrote these familiar words, which have been adapted and quoted in many marriage ceremonies: The woman was made of a rib out of the...
In 2 Corinthians 4:6-7, Paul wrote, For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Je...
If we claim allegiance to the Reformers, we ought to conduct ourselves with the same level of courage and conviction they displayed as we contend earnestly for the faith.
If anyone is ever to be kept out of heaven for my sins, it will have to be Jesus, for He took them all upon Himself and made Himself responsible for them. But He is in heaven already, never to be turn...
If Jesus expresses loving concern for the smallest of our troubles, certainly in His role as the perfect sufferer He cares for our greatest traumas.
If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not co...
Human ideas and concepts are temporal and completely incapable of producing spiritual truth or guidance.
Here’s why: The best way to find the right person is to be the right person.
God help us! We have turned the holy fire of God into a circus sideshow—and naive Christians are buying this without realizing that such shenanigans are actually blasphemous.21
Es la iglesia de Dios. El rebaño y las ovejas de Dios llenan la iglesia de Dios. Ése es un importante recordatorio para quienes hablamos de «nuestra» o «mi» iglesia, «nuestro» o «mi» pueblo, «nuestros...
El tipo de alabanza que el Padre busca no es una cacofonía caótica sin sentido. La adoración no es mera locura y sentimientos.
El mensaje bíblico no es que la humanidad se divide entre el moral y el inmoral. El claro mensaje de la Biblia es que «todos pecaron, y están destituidos de la gloria de Dios» (Romanos 3.23). No hay d...
El espíritu ecuménico de la época se retracta con cobardía sin denunciar el error, incluso cuando la Escritura lo garantiza explícitamente.
El amar la predicación es una cosa, el amar a quienes se predica es algo completamente distinto. El
Does God expect us to be holy? In Leviticus 11:44, 45, God says consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. In all of this, God is teaching His people to live antithetically. That is,...
But the inspired writers, early in Old Testament history, recognized there is one exception or limitation to our divinely mandated obligation of civil obedience: whenever an ordinance or official comm...
Because the Lord is our Master, we can trust Him to take care of us in every situation and stage of life. Even in the most difficult of circumstances, He will provide all that we need in order to be f...
Asking God for the discernment to understand the suffering’s purpose and how it contributes to placing us in the center of His will is something we ought not overlook.