Archive for March 1999

Have you had one of those days when nothing seems to go right? You’re late for work, stuck in traffic, lock your keys in the car, have a headache, get into an argument with your spouse … You wish you could go back and get out of the other side of the bed, if that…

“On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, ‘If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those…

“Amazing grace, shall always be my song of praise, For it was grace that bought my liberty; I do not know just why He came to love me so, He looked beyond my fault and saw my need.”[1] The words of that song gratefully acknowledge the wonderful blessing of God’s grace in the lives of…

We sometimes use the expression “keep the faith!” to encourage steadfast endurance. How should we “keep the faith”? “As you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him” (Col 2:6). Faith in salvation includes belief and trust. Belief denotes the idea of confidence in the truth, and trust denotes reliance upon the…

The preacher said “We all start out life naked and hungry, and it goes downhill from there!” Thankfully, the way we were born again in Christ has more of a basis for optimism! Colossians 2:6 draws an important comparison between the way the Christian life begins and how it should express itself in discipleship. “As…