Kathleen Nielsen on never retreating in the Christian life. We’re going forward, and no orders to retreat can possibly be official. Germany has repeatedly sent men into the Allied ranks perfectly disguised as Allied officers, speaking English or French perfectly, to order a retreat, just as the Devil sends the same kind of people into …
Would Jesus visit with our churches and discover that our definition of healthy fits his definition of healthy? We love, but do we love as God loves? Jonathan Leeman says, “We assume not that God is love but that love is God.” The church of Christ is a community where her members love each other …
I heard recently of a pastor who was censured by his deacons because he refused to allow a woman to sing in the church choir who was living in open and unrepentant sin. Odd to consider that a group of leaders who are supposed to use the Bible as their guide opposed the biblical mandate …
A few quotes that I hope you will find useful on this Monday. He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day. You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed He that is down …
I’ve recently been studying the passages in Proverbs that speak about our use of language, our mouth, and our tongue. Last week I was struck by Proverbs 16:23, The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips. What was so striking? The writer’s emphasis on the heart. In Matthew …
Trying to grow in your faith? Here is some great counsel, I prayed for faith, and though that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, ‘Now faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the …
Just as there can be no normal, healthy life without the proper kind of food, so there can be no normal, spiritual growth without the food that God has ordained as the nourishment of the new life. ‘As newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the Word that ye may grow thereby’ (1 Pet. 2:2). …
Right now, #Everybodywantstobe is trending on Twitter. What are the scriptural ramifications of this statement? The Bible teaches us that what we want to be and what we need to be are not always the same thing. For instance, in Romans 1 Paul basically asserts that we want to be our own boss…our own god, …
When you start reading Luther, or Edwards, or Whitefield, though your doctrine may be theirs, you soon find yourself wondering whether you have any acquaintance at all with the mighty God whom they knew so intimately. J.I. Packer Knowing God pg.83
I love books. I especially love Bibles. I appreciate the care with which many are bound, I like the smell, and of course, I love the broke-in feeling of an old Bible. My heart is warmed when I flip through my Nelson New King James Study Bible that carried me through high school, college, and …