To be conformed to Jesus, we must first begin to think as Jesus did. We need the mind of Christ. We need to value the things He values and despise the things He despises. We need to have the same prio...
To be a saint means to be separated. But it means more than that. The saint also is to be involved in a vital process of sanctification. We are to be purified daily in the growing pursuit of holiness....
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.
This yields a practical help for Bible study: read the Bible with a red pen in hand. I suggest that you put a question mark in the margin beside every passage that you find unclear or hard to understa...
There was a mountain climber who slipped on a ledge and was about to plummet thousands of feet to his death, but as he started to fall, he grabbed a branch of a tiny, scraggly tree that was growing ou...
There is a war in the Christian life between flesh and spirit. We still battle with the flesh, but the battle is not with our physical body. It may include that, but the battle between the flesh and t...
There are vast numbers of portraits of Jesus in the art galleries of this world. These images are often so conflicting that
The translators of the King James Version chose to render parakletos with the English word Comforter because at that time the English language was more closely connected to its historical roots in Lat...
The term born-again Christian is a redundancy. It is a kind of theological stuttering. If one is born again, then one is a Christian. If one is a Christian, then one is born again. There are no non-bo...
The study of religion is chiefly the study of a certain kind of human behavior, be it under the rubric of anthropology, sociology, or psychology. The study of theology, on the other hand, is the study...
The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God....
The irony of New Testament lordship isthat only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
The idea that God always wills healing has been a destructive distortion in the Christian community. The pastoral problems emanating from this are enormous.
The doctrine of inspiration declares that God enabled the human writers of Scripture to be agents of divine revelation, so that what they wrote was not only their writing but in a higher sense the ver...
The cliche is that misery loves company. Another is that there is fellowship among thieves. But thieves do not seek the consoling presence of the fellowship of police officers. Sinful misery does not...
The attention at the beginning of these petitions is on the exaltation of God and His concerns. In the initial phrases of the Lord's Prayer, Jesus fixes our gaze not on ourselves but on God.People
The God of Christianity is sovereign, wise, righteous, and ultimately concerned with justice. Not only is God concerned with justice, He assumes the role of judge over us. It is axiomatic to Christian...
The Christian ethic is based on an antithesis between what is and what ought to be. We view the world as fallen; an analysis of fallen human behavior describes what isnormal to the abnormal situation...
The Bible teaches us again and again that we are slaves to sin. Sin is not only in our nature, but it is our master.
So the very beginning of godliness, the very beginning of transformation in our lives and in our society, begins with our posture before the character of God.'The