Prayer is not magic. God is not a celestial bellhop ready at our beck and call to satisfy our every whim. In some cases, our prayers must involve travail of the soul and agony of heart such as Jesus H...
Pleasing God is at the heart of worship. Therefore, our worship must be informed at every point by the Word of God as we seek God’s own instructions for worship that is pleasing to Him.
Paul tells us here in 2 Corinthians that the King of the universeplaces His indelible mark on the soul of every one of His people.
Paul declared, There is none who seeks after God (Rom. 3:11). The unbeliever never seeks God. The unbeliever is a fugitive from God. The natural pattern for humanity is to run from Him, to hide from H...
One of the most comforting verses of Scripture is Romans 8:28: And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose. Only a God...
On the other hand, it is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he have previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself. . ....
Like Abraham, we are pilgrims and sojourners in this world, searching for that heavenly country, the city whose designer and builder is God. We have not seen this city, but we know it exists, and the...
It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holi...
It is the task of the pastor and of the church to feed the sheep. If someone who is not a sheep comes in, that's fine, but we're not going to change the menu and give the sheep goats' food. Worship is...
If we are going to deal with the discipline of Bible study, we must recognize at the outset that we will need the grace of God to persevere.
I once gave a lecture in which I publicly denied the existence of God. I said: I want to emphatically affirm today that God does not exist. In fact, if He did exist, I would stop believing in Him. If...
I know inwardly that I do not love Christ totally. But at the same time I do know that I love him. I rejoice inwardly at the thought of his triumph. I rejoice inwardly at the thought of his coming. I...
I hear people say that the miracles of the New Testament prove the existence of God, but they do not. God demonstrates His existence long before a single miracle is ever performed by anyone. The funct...
Frenzy, the counterfeit of fervency, is a contrived attempt to simulate godly fervor. Those who deliberately manipulatepeople's emotions are served warning here. There is something holy, something sov...
Everyone has the right to do his own thing. This slogan is as crass as it is silly. If it were followed by everyone resolutely, society itself would be an impossibility. No one would have any true rig...
En palabras simples, la oración ocupa un lugar vital en la vida del cristiano. Alguien podría orar y no ser cristiano, pero no se puede ser cristiano y no orar. Romanos 8:15 nos dice que la adopción e...
Can anything be more ridiculous than a religion that builds on a fundamental refusal to acknowledge what is known to be true? Can
But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?
As the psalmist prayed so many centuries ago, If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? (Ps. 130:3). The answer is obvious: no one. The bad news is that the Lord does mark iniqu...
Any time we discuss a historical event, we review the facts, and sometimes we argue about what really took place, what was said, what was observed. However, once we agree on the facts (or agree to dis...