The theater of God’s redemption is this world. It is to this world that God came in Christ. Christ refused to allow His disciples to hide in an upper room with the doors locked because of fear. No tab...
The prayer offaith is not a demand that we place on God. It is not a presumption of a granted request. The authentic prayer of faith is one that models Jesus' prayer. It is always uttered in a spirit...
The more I expose myself to the Word of God, the greater my faith will be. By the same token, if I am negligent in reading the Scriptures, I open myself to ideas pouring into my head from the secular...
The mind of God does not change for God does not change. Things change, and they change according to His sovereign will, which He exercises through secondary means and secondary activities. The prayer...
The inauthentic person seeks safety in normality. He denies his uniqueness by becoming average. In
The foolishness of preaching is the method God has chosen to save the world. That
The church is called to be semper reformanda, always reforming.
The bottom line is that any time we experience feelings of guilt, we need to step back and ask ourselves as honestly as we possibly can, Have I broken the law of God?
The Spirit inspired the Word when it originally was written. Today, He uses it to illumine us, and He applies it to our souls and hearts.
Subjectivism takes place when we distort the objective meaning of terms to suit our own interests.
Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.
Seek the kingdom. Seek righteousness. These are the priorities of the Christian life.
My purposes do not always include God’s good. I am a sinner.
La razón exacta por la que oramos es la soberanía de Dios, porque creemos que está dentro del poder de Dios ordenar las cosas conforme a su propósito. Eso es precisamente la soberanía: ordenar las cos...
Jesus was killed because He was the light of the world and because men prefer the darkness to the light.
It was St. Augustine who once prayed, Thou halt made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it finds its rest in Thee.
It distresses me somewhat to hear a person say, I am a born-again Christian. What’s wrong with such a statement? Well, what other kind of Christian is there? If rebirth is absolutely essential in orde...
In some Christian circles the biblical call to a childlike faith has been elevated to a spiritual ideal that radically distorts the biblical meaning of faith. The New Testament does describe a certain...
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
As Protestants, we say that justification is by faith alone. That little word by is critical to our understanding of how justification takes place. It does not mean that faith is meritorious and oblig...