Clarifications

Far too many Christians live their spiritual life on the “battery system.” Lest that sounds a strangely peculiar idea, let me explain at once what I mean. I can dimly remember how, when I was a very little boy, my dear mother sometimes took me to a town where, if I remember rightly, about that…

Vocation and Family “Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him … Wives, submit to your own husbands,as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love…

Groundwork for Brokenness I had been experiencing a lot of pressure and frustration in my life a number of years ago. I was angry because I thought my goals in my work were being blocked by other people. My schedule was getting busier and I was becoming increasingly tired. Although I was in Christian work…

[The testimony of a man who discovered Jesus to be more than a prophet] My love for the words of Allah motivated me to memorize all of the words of the Quran. But my cousin told me that I still did not know true Islam. So, I studied more and concluded that my father was…

In our journey to receive and live out God’s righteousness in a fallen world, we encounter well-intentioned detours. A young man once asked, “What is it I must forsake?” He was instructed, “Colored clothes, for one thing. Get rid of everything in your wardrobe that is not white. Stop sleeping on a soft pillow. Sell…

I want to continue our discussion on the next part of our core theology: Jesus our Sanctifier (Part II). You may recall in the previous article that, according to John 1:29-33, Jesus is: • the one who is taking away the sin of the world • the one who is baptizing with the Holy Spirit…

GOD’S FAITHFULNESS IN OUR SUFFERINGS “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.” (1…

DEDICATION To the beloved people of God, who, at this present time, have forgotten prosperity and whose souls are removed afar off from peace. To those whose hearts cry out even now, “My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord.” Whose remembrance is of their affliction, misery, wormwood and gall of present circumstances,…

Big Brown is a colt that has won five races by a combined 39 lengths. Jockey Kent Desormeaux rode him to impressive win at the Kentucky Derby and didn’t even need to use his whip! If Big Brown wins at the Belmont Stakes on June 7, ’08, he will become the first horse to win…

We now come to the last of our chapters, Romans 8. It is the last chapter of what is called the Gospel of God for believers, and it is one of the grandest chapters in the Bible…. As we compare it with the three chapters already considered, it gives us the positive side of experimental…