When the Bible speaks of hope, it is not referring to a desire for a future outcome that is uncertain, but rather a desire for a future outcome that is absolutely sure.
Was indicated that the Draft Committee would meet within the year to review and, if necessary,
This plan, who received the physical blessing of healing, apparently never went past the physical to saving faith.How easy it is for us to be faithful to Christ when we receive some benefit from His h...
The neglect of prayer is a major cause of stagnation in the Christian life.
Pleasing to God. Churches that practice infant baptism believe that it is their duty to baptize infants, and in failing to do so they would be derelict in a responsibility. Those that refrain from inf...
One of the best ways of learning orthodoxy is by learning what is false. In fact, heresy historically has forced the church to be precise, to define its doctrines and differentiate truth from falsehoo...
On the hired man's face as he threw up his hands and replied, It's the decisions in life that are difficult.
Not prohibit an appropriate quest for literary sources or even oral sources that may be discerned through source criticism, but it draws a line as to the extent to which such critical analysis can go....
In prayer. The Holy Spirit teaches, inspires, and illumines God’s Word to us. He mediates the Word of God and assists us in responding to the Father in prayer. Simply put, prayer has a vital place in...
Yet I believe we are in the midst of a new and more evil holocaust, which sees the destruction of 1.5 million unborn babies every year in the United States alone.
When God quickens a human soul, He does it immediately. When I say immediately,
We pray to glorify God, but we also pray in order to receive the benefits of prayer from His hand. Prayer is for our benefit, even in light of the fact that God knows the end from the beginning. It is...
We neither surrender to the world nor flee from the world. We are to penetrate the world with a new and different spirit.
We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
We have made our worship services more secular than sacred, more common than uncommon, more profane than holy.
We argue endlessly over matters of religion and philosophy, about ethics and politics, but each person must ultimately face the personal issue squarely: What do I do about my sin?
Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
This is the very heart of the gospel. In order to get into heaven, will I be judged by my righteousness or by the righteousness of Christ? If I have to trust in my righteousness to get into heaven, I...
There is no more direct statement or more clear affirmationof the deity of Christ to be found anywhere in Scripture than in the first verse of John's Gospel.
The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, to whims, or to marketing strategies. It is the pleasing of God that is at the heart of...