Found a liberal Jesus; the existentialists found an existential hero; and the Marxists discovered a political revolutionary. Idealists found an idealistic Jesus and pragmatists discovered a pragmatic...
Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? (Rom. 8:33-34a).
When we pray, we must remember who God is and who we are before Him. We must remember first and foremost that God's name is to be kept holy. We must rememberthat He is the Source of our provision and...
When we look at the Trinitarian work of redemption, we make a distinction between its design and its accomplishment. Our redemption is designed and mandated by the Father (in conjunction with the othe...
God does not need our consent in order to govern us. He made us, so He has an intrinsic right to rule over us.
When the Jews wanted to make something emphatic, instead of adding an exclamation point or using italics, they would simply repeat it.
God makes no promise that He will use my story as His power unto salvation. The gospel is not about me. The gospel is aboutJesus. It is the proclamation of the person and work of Christ, and of how a...
When Luther boldly declared the biblical doctrine of jus.ifrcation by faith alone, he said, Justification is by faith alone, but not by a faith that is alone.
What would induce God to change His mind? Perhaps new information, some knowledge He lacks until we communicate it to Him for His consideration. However, the Bible tells us that when we come to our Ki...
If God’s sovereignty is limited one ounce by our freedom, He is not sovereign. What kind of a concept of God do we have that we would say that God is paralyzed by human choices? If His freedom is limi...
What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God? Every Christian should have a passion to please God. We are to delight in honoring Him. It shoul...
What did the Messiah need to do in order to be the Lamb of God, in order to make an atonement for the people of Israel? We know that Jesus came to die for our sins, but why did He not simply come down...
We tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run...
God's people likely will not receive the world's adulation, but we will someday hear the words, Well done, good and faithful servant.
He leapfrogged from the status of despised Galilean
To be spiritually dead is to be worldly. It is to buy into and follow slavishly the values and customs of the secular culture. Not only do the spiritually dead follow the course of this world, they fo...
To look at the church as an organization where the labor and ministry are done only by the ministers is to miss the entire point. The ministers’ primary task is to equip the saints—the rank-and-file,...
Throughout history, God has demonstrated that He is supremely trustworthy. That’s why, in one sense, nothing could be more foolish than not to trust in the promises of God.
Today a frightening lack of fear of God prevails in our world. Martin Luther once remarked that those around him spoke to God as if He were a shoe clerk's apprentice. If that was true in Luther's day,...
Todo lo que Dios hace es en primer lugar para su gloria y en segundo lugar para nuestro beneficio. Oramos porque Dios nos ordena que oremos, porque eso lo glorifica, y porque nos beneficia.
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