Such a Jesus has no need of a church. Worship is at best a hollow service and at worst an act of blasphemy if it is directed toward a dead teacher of morality. We have no church for Socrates. We sing...
Our labor must not be simply for the acquisition of wealth, but for the glory of God.
Like the Chaldeans, Joseph’s brothers were guilty of sin, sin that they personally had wanted to do. But God stands above all human choices and works through human freedom to bring about His own provi...
Lake Mary, Florida. He also serves as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's in Sanford, Florida,
Jesus declared that our productivity, our fruitfulness, is directly linked to our abiding in Him. As Christians, we will bear fruit, but it will vary in degree. The closer we stay to Christ, the more...
It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
If the church is ever to be the church triumphant, she must first be the church militant. She must be willing to enter into a spiritual war, one that could cost us our very lives.
I do not have to prove to you that God exists, because I think you already know it. Your problem is not that you do not know that God exists; your problem is that you despise the God whom you know exi...
I am not satisfied to believe just anything simply for the sake of believing. If what I believe is not true—if it is superstitious or fallacious—I want to be liberated from it. But the mentality of ou...
I am convinced that the most neglected dimension of the life of Jesus in the church today is His ascension. Without the ascension, both the cross and the resurrection are meaningless. The climax of Je...
He ordained that His creatures should have the capacity for evil. He did not force them to exercise that capacity, but He knew that they would exercise it. At
God is working in us for his good pleasure. Paul does not say that God is working in us for our good pleasure.
Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.
En la Institución de la religión cristiana, Juan Calvino hace algunas profundas observaciones respecto a la oración: Alguien
El conflicto es constante porque la capacidad para el mal que reside en el corazón de una persona regenerada casi no tiene límites. No debe impactarnos demasiado cuando vemos líderes cristianos caer e...
But while Paul is silent about the question of future choices in verse 11, he does not remain so. In verse 16 he makes it clear: So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who...
We cannot escape the fact that at the very heart of the Christian faith is the truth that this world is not our home. Our final destination still lies ahead.
Place as to an office. He departed from the arena of humiliation and suffering to enter into His glory. In one moment, He leapfrogged from the status of despised Galilean teacher to the cosmic King of...
Ohn Wesley, the founder of Methodism, testified that his conversion experience occurred after he was already an ordained clergyman. He was at a meeting in Aldersgate Street in London, listening to a s...
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