Surrendered Too Soon
Then the Lord closed the door. Genesis 7:16 The high price of love is yearning, and the stress which goes with it. Agape love means wanting what God wants for the person you love. You want him to be...
View ArticleOf Truth Telling and Roller Coasters
The following is a revised excerpt from my book “Speaking of Homosexuality” When someone you love is in the wrong, then you’re in the dumps. That’s the high price of love. To love is to long for...
View ArticleMe Divided by Three
Man made in the image and likeness of God was made an inferior trinity of spirit, soul and body. But when man obeyed the body appetites, eating of this tree, man became inverted and he became body,...
View ArticleThe Greater Condemnation
My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. – James 3:1 James didn’t write a very nice book. In fact, apart from Proverbs, I think his epistle’s the...
View ArticleJudgment Days
“For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.” –Matthew 7:2 Some days I’m just in a judgment kind of mood. That’s a confession of sin, in case you didn’t catch it, but it’s a sin I’m not alone...
View ArticleEternally Secure, Perpetually Striving
One of Christianity’s longest running arguments has to do with the believer’s security. If one has been born again, can he ever lose his salvation? If so, how? And, once lost, can it ever be retrieved?...
View ArticleThe Restrainer
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. II Thessalonians 2:7 I believe that the restraining power that is keeping back evil...
View ArticleStanding Your Lonely Ground
“Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!” – Luke 6:26 Generally, you should consider what others are telling you. Occasionally, you should accept their direction, realizing they have...
View ArticleStanding Your Lonely Ground
“Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!” – Luke 6:26 Generally, you should consider what others are telling you. Occasionally, you should also accept their direction, realizing they have...
View ArticleIt’s a Worm-derful Life
“But I am a worm —“ –Psalm 22:6 “If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” –Hebrews 10:38 There’s humility, which God loves, then there’s cringing, which He doesn’t. The humble...
View ArticleDeeds Above Creeds
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. –James 1:22 Most of my Christian life, I’ve assumed being “well grounded” meant the same as being “well taught.” This...
View ArticleVeterans Day and the Honor of the Fight
If you can’t go back to your mother’s womb, you’d better learn to be a good fighter. – Anchee Min Forty years ago I knew a young minister who was stricken with doubt over something he’d just said...
View ArticleTo Judge or Not to Judge?
Jesus is saying basically that we are not to condemn, but we are to discriminate. -Pastor and Bible teacher Chuck Smith “Judge not, that ye be not judged” (Matthew 7:1) is one mind bender of a verse....
View ArticleBecause They Loved: Remembering the Impact of the Jesus People
In the midst of the world, in the midst of our present dying culture, Jesus is giving a right to the world. Upon his authority he gives the world the right to judge whether you and I are born-again...
View ArticleSound Doctrine: Endangered Species, Essential Structure
All a man, a church or a denomination needs to guarantee deterioration of doctrine is to take everything for granted and do nothing. The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds. -A.W. Tozer...
View ArticleThe Unnatural Drifter
“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward...
View ArticleEternally Secure, Perpetually Striving
One of Christianity’s longest running arguments has to do with the believer’s security. If one has been born again, can he ever lose his salvation? If so, how? And, once lost, can it ever be retrieved?...
View ArticleThe Greater Condemnation
My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. - James 3:1 James didn’t write a very nice book. In fact, apart from Proverbs, I think his epistle’s the...
View ArticleJudgment Days
“For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.” -Matthew 7:2 I remember hearing Pastor Chuck Smith, years ago, admit (from the pulpit no less!) “You should be glad I wasn’t God yesterday,...
View ArticleStrange Ire: John MacArthur, Charismatics, and Controversy
I think it’s odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often about petty matters....
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