Absolutely nothing we do can please God apart from this kind of faith. Without faith, pleasing God is impossible. Faith Has Substance | Reflections But without...
For some, being “Christian” is primarily cultural and traditional, a nominal title inherited from a previous generation, the net effect of which involves avoiding certain behaviors...
There are, after all, only two kinds of religion in all the world. Every false religion ever devised by mankind or by Satan is a religion...
Christ rose from the dead in triumph, gaining redemption for Adam’s fallen race, while destroying the works of the devil. The Beginning of a Promise And...
In Matthew 23:13–39, Jesus pronounced a series of woes on the religious leaders of His time. Moralism Is Not the True Gospel. Christian reflection by John...
By saying “God is love,” the apostle is making a very strong statement about the character and the essence of God. It is God’s very nature...
The love that we hear about in popular songs is almost always portrayed as a feeling—usually involving unfulfilled desire. True Love Love suffers long and is...
No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him . . . no one can come to Me unless it has...
Those verses describe the absolute identification with Christ that is the essential characteristic of the elect. We are indivisibly linked in a spiritual sphere of new...
The contemporary craving for shallow sermons that please and entertain is at least partly rooted in the popular myth that Jesus Himself was always likable, agreeable,...