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...
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...
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.
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.
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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...
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.
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...
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...
And are to be the authentic witnesses ofYahweh. However, no border was to be crossed or mission undertaken until first the Spirit came down. The disciplesreturned to Jerusalem rejoicing for the purpos...
When I have things in perspective, I know that if I never experienced another blessing in my entire life other than the blessings I already have received from the hand of God, I would have no possible...
What is a sensuous Christian? One dictionary defines sensuous as, pertaining to the senses or sensible objects: highly susceptible to influence through the senses. The sensuous Christian is one who li...
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 must see that while we are justified by faith apart from works, we are justified by faith unto works.
We must accept the fact that God sometimes says no. Sometimes He calls us to suffer and die even if we want to claim the contrary.