We see that God called the nation of Israel His vine. He planted and tended it, and He expected it to bear fruit to all nations (see Ps. 80; Isa. 5; Jer. 2:2 1).
We live in a culture that embraces pluralism and relativism, and we are told every (lay that proselytizing people or trying to convert people to Christianity is taboo. But the Lord Himself was sent by...
We have no merit to offer God except for that earned for us by our Savior.
We do not want to take credit for our evil choices. We sometimes try to blame them on God, just as Adam did when he said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I at...
We can take comfort from the fact that God knows our hearts and hears our unspoken petitions as well as the words that emanate from our lips. Whenever we are unable to express the deep feelings and em...
We are told in Scripture that it is possible for people, by repeated sins, to lose the capacity for embarrassment and shame. The Bible frequently speaks of the hardened heart, which causes a person no...
We affirm that the written Word in its entirety is revelation given by God. We deny that the Bible is merely a witness to revelation, or only becomes revelation in encounter, or depends on the respons...
Was Paul unloving when he disputed daily in the marketplace about the things of God (Acts 17:17)? Was Jesus unloving when He contradicted the teaching of the Pharisees? Were the prophets of ancient Is...
Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God Himself.
Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God Himself. This sort of unbelief is destructive to the church and to the people of God.
Todos tenemos una lucha cuando evaluamos nuestra vida cristiana. Podemos ver cambios para bien en nuestra vida, pero también vemos las cosas que no queremos ver; las cosas que no queremos que nadie ve...
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.
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...
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.
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 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 sanctity-of-life principle underscores the gravity of the question of when human life begins.
The principle of priestly absolution was not a major issue. The Roman Catholic Church has always taught that the priestly words Te absolvo (I absolve you) find their strength in the promise of Jesus t...