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If you have a heart that desperately desires to know and serve God, the place to begin is by understanding and believing the biblical truth of your identity in Christ. This is a watershed issue, one that determines whether you will live free in Christ or live as a slave of the world, the flesh,…

  “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isaiah 9:6). It seems best to take the two first titles as a compound name,…

Bob and Joan Galasso are friends who serve in a ministry of pastoral care and counseling based in Florida. They minister primarily to pastors and missionaries in the U.S. and several foreign countries. This testimony is from someone they ministered to.] God brought a wonderful young man named Shaun into our lives. This is his…

Wedded Wisdom An overview of these … myths reveals that [some] beliefs qualify as misbeliefs for a variety of reasons: Many are overly idealistic or romantic; some, too simplistic; others, too extreme. In some instances, conventional wisdom has been challenged. Other entries have affirmed what great-grandmothers throughout the ages have known to be true. Most…

In our clinical discipleship ministry at Grace Fellowship International we usually have counselees read Handbook to Happiness. This book (by my mentor and colleague, Dr. Charles Solomon) presents a unique Christ-centered process of appropriating one’s identification with Christ. While many devotional writers have expounded upon the wonders of being “in Christ,” this message is especially…

The Bias of Degeneration [The bent of fallen humanity in need of a Savior] “Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” Romans 5:12 The Bible does not say that God punished the human race for one…

We seek to show, by a few examples, the boundless range and scope of one brief phrase of two or three short words: in Christ, or, in Christ Jesus. A very small key may open a very complex lock and a very large door, and that door may itself lead into a vast building with…

[In Charles Dickens’ novel Nicholas Nickleby, Nicholas is sent to teach at Dotheboys Hall.  It is a boarding school where there are no holidays, no trips home for the abused and neglected pupils of Mr. Wackford Squeers. Eventually Nicholas intervenes during one of Squeers’s beatings of Smike—a perpetually ill and dim-witted boy who befriends Nicholas—and…

C. Legalism is also a problem for Christians. Man-made rules, apart from divine relationship, turn God’s values upside down! “The story was told some years ago of a pastor who found the roads blocked one Sunday morning and was forced to skate on the river to get to church, which he did. When he arrived,…

Since 1966 God has given me the privilege of traveling the world and sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ with hundreds of thousands of people. I have been thrilled to see people of all nationalities come into relationship with Jesus Christ and experience new life in Him. But all this almost didn’t happen. As…