Biblical Counseling
How Can a Little Clay Pot Express His Glory?
“Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 3:17,18,…
Read MoreThe Faithful God (part 3)
GOD’S FAITHFULNESS IN OUR UNBELIEF “If we believe not, yet He abideth faithful: He cannot deny Himself.” ( 2 Timothy 2:13) “When nothing whereon to lean remains, When strongholds crumble to dust,When nothing seems sure but that God still lives,This is the time to trust.” But, what if the heart can’t trust? What if the…
Read MoreNo Independent Self: An Attempt at Clarification
The phrase “no independent self” has been used in some Christian circles. This study attempts to consider legitimate and illegitimate usages of the phrase. ©2005 by James A. Fowler. All rights reserved. You are free to download this article provided it remains intact without alteration. You are also free to transmit this article and quote…
Read MoreEmancipation from Sin’s Tyranny (Rom. 6)
“Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the…
Read MoreTestimony of Paul and Vicki Cardarella
In Christ Interview With Paul and Vicki Cardarella INTERVIEWER: Has anything happened in your life which has served as the occasion for you to study the New Testament message of living by grace? PAUL: There was an incident. Without going into explicit detail there was a near tragedy in our lives. On the night it…
Read MoreThe Body as an Offering
“Do not offer the parts of your body to sin … but rather offer yourselves to God”(Romans 6:13). Not only are we to offer our spirit and soul as an offering to God, but we are to offer our body as well. Under the Old Covenant, the slain sacrifice was not presented as a whole;…
Read MoreFaith-filled Friendship
1. An unselfish relationship “And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God” (1 Sam. 23: 16). God make us all His Jonathans. There is a great hunter abroad in the world [the devil]. Like Saul who sought David every day, he seeks souls every day,…
Read MoreRenovated for Freedom
A while back businessmen and architects faced the question of what to do with a crumbling, old jailhouse in Boston. At the cost of 150 million dollars, the building was thoroughly renovated to become the city’s newest luxury hotel! The distinctive, eight-sided building was originally completed in 1851. It finally closed its operation as a…
Read MoreThe Relevance of Mary’s Faith
“Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And having come in, the angel said to her, ‘Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord…
Read MoreGrafted Branches
One of the vivid metaphors of the believer’s union with Christ is that of a grafted branch. The Lord Jesus uses this image extensively in John 15:1-8 where He is the true vine and believers are branches. The ones who temporarily are unfruitful are “lifted up” through cleansing, support, and positioning in the sun (v.2).[1]…
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