Jesus endured His suffering in order to redeem His people. But those He redeemed are not thereby delivered from all pain and misery. Indeed, as we shall see, we His people are called to participate in...
It’s interesting that we can always find someone who will give an articulate and persuasive defense for the ethical legitimacy of some of the activities that God has judged to be an outrage to Him. As...
It is necessary for fire, but alone it does not guarantee the result of fire.
It has been said that nothing dispels a lie faster than the truth; nothing exposes the counterfeit faster than the genuine.
International Council on Biblical Inerrancy was a California-based organization from 1977 to 1987.
In this life, we need the second touch of Christ. Indeed, we require a third, fourth, fifth, and continual touch. Though the scales are removed from our eyes, we still need to be led by the hand of Je...
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Hini nothing was made that was made. In...
In the affirmation ofArticle III, the words in its entirety are significant. There are those who have claimed that the Bible contains revelation from God here and there, in specified places, but
In discussions among the participants at the summit and because of requests to the Draft Committee, there was considerable sentiment for striking the words sixty-six canonical books from the early dra...
If you are baptized, you have in your body the mark of your participation in the suffering of Christ, because we are buried with Him in baptism.
If we rest our assurance on an experience and not on the Word of God, we're inviting all kinds of doubts to assail us in our pilgrimages. We need to seek authentic knowledge of our salvation, not just...
If the conscience is misinformed, then we seek the reasons for this misinformation. Is it misinformed because the person has been negligent in studying the Word of God? God has been pleased to reveal...
If the Bible is unreliable in what it teaches about these things, the church is left to speculate and has nothing of value to speak to the world.
If Paul does not mean that all who are called are justified, the only alternative would be that some who are called are justified. If we supply the word some instead of the word all here, then we must...
If God ceased to exist, the universe would perish with Him, because God not only has created everything, He sustains everything. We are dependent on Him, not only for our origin, but also for our cont...
I was new Christian. My conversation had been sudden and dramatic, a replica for me of the Damascus Road. My life had been turned upside down,, and I was filled with zeal for the sweetness of Christ....
I have noticed that it isn't just secularists who howl when a Christian wanders off the reservation and proclaims the gospel in the public square. Other Christians also make a fuss. Why? Because when...
I don't want us to miss the underlying assumption in this statement from Jesus there are degrees of wickedness. Not all sin is equally heinous, and in this case there was a greater and a lesser sin.
I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring, but I know that God knows what tomorrow is going to bring. So if God promises that tomorrow will bring something, and if I trust God for tomorrow, I have...
I am saying it must be good that evil exists, because God sovereignly, providentially ordains only what is good. In terms of His eternal purpose, God has esteemed it good that evil should be allowed t...