The more we are in the Word of God, the more the Spirit who inspired the Word and who illumines it for us will use the Word to confirm in our souls that we are truly His, that we are indeed among the...
The kingdom of God is not our only inheritance. In His last will and testament, Jesus left His heirs something else, something very special: Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give...
The journey has but one guarantee: Christ promises to go with us and to bring us out the other side. Our Lord finishes what He starts. He does not abort His handiwork in the middle of its creation. He...
The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in.
The irony of New Testament lordship isthat only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.
The idea of holiness is so central to biblical teaching that it is said of God, Holy is his name (Luke 1:49). His name is holy because He is holy. He is not always treated with holy reverence. His nam...
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 chief difference between the believer and the unbeliever is forgiveness. The only thing that qualifies a person to be a minister in the name of Christ is that that person has experienced forgivene...
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 apostle said he was hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed. He made no attempt to mask his pain in a fraudulent piety. The Christian is not a Stoic. Neither does he flee into a fantasy world...
That is intellectual madness. What are the chances that the universe was created by chance?
Suffering
Sometimes we make an artificial separation or distinction between the Old and New Testaments. We talk about the Old Testament as law and the New Testament as gospel, as if there were no law in the New...
Puesto que no tenemos el poder de ser en nosotros mismos, no duraríamos ni un segundo sin su poder sustentador. Eso es parte de la providencia de Dios.
Perhaps the most important principle in Scripture regarding abilities is found in Paul's injunction that we ought to make a sober analysis of ourselves, not thinking too highly of ourselves (Rom. 12:3...
Only God can bring something out of nothing and life out of death.
One of the chief functions of miracles in the New Testament, according to the apostolic testimony, was to authenticate agents of revelation, such as the apostles. God attested that these people were s...
One critical factor in this dilemma is the fact that ministers are profoundly pressed to conform to acceptable contemporary standards. The person who comes to the minister for counsel is not always lo...
One can go through theexternal motions of a profession but not truly be in possession of the inward reality of salvation.
One Reformed theologian, A. A. Hodge, gives the following list of distinctions between true assurance and false assurance: TRUE ASSURANCE FALSE ASSURANCE begets unfeigned humility begets spiritual pri...