Godly Leaders are Careful Leaders
My sister-in-law and her husband, a pastor, recently purchased an old home in an urban neighborhood where they are planting a church. Their house is old but their children are young. It is important for […]
Quotes
Grace is a Gift, Not a Wage
When a person works an eight-hour day and receives a fair day’s pay for his time, that is a wage. When a person competes with an opponent and receives a trophy for his performance, that […]
Resurrection and Christian Risk-Taking
How could Paul do it? What was the source of this radical obedience? The answer is given in 1 Corinthians 15:20: “But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those […]
Are You Covered By the Blood of Christ?
And do you see, my Hearers, a glorious parallel? They had to sprinkle the blood and also to eat the lamb. Ah, my Soul, have you ever had the blood sprinkled on you? Can you […]
God Covenants with Eternal Beings!
Does the eternal God covenant with creatures that shall live only to threescore years and 10 and then shall go out like a candle-snuff? How can He be a God to them? I understand how […]
Death is not a Change of Relation to God
Jesus held that God’s describing himself to Moses as Abraham’s God, Jacob’s God, and Isaac’s God referred not merely to a part relationship which no longer existed. By his very nature God is the God […]
On Church and State
We shall do well to remember, that of all questions which have perplexed Christians, none have ever proved so intricate and puzzling, as the class of questions which the Pharisees and Herodians here propounded. What […]
Do Not Trifle With the Grace of the Son
Such is He who pleads with you! So majestic and so compassionate, so great and yet so good—will you refuse Him? If I plead with you, I am but as you are—flesh of your flesh. […]
Spiritual Blind Spots
We can always see the spiritual blindness of our forefathers, but never our own, by the very perversity that is the irony of human nature. R. Alan Cole “Mark”
True Obedience is Complete Obedience
It is disobedience, and not obedience which prompts us to select from the commands of Christ which ones we care to obey. If you say, “I will do what Christ bids me as far as […]