What word could be more consumately Jewish than "synagogue?" When most people think of synagogues, they think of the buildings where Jews have formally gathered for prayer and the reading and exposition of the scriptures since the time of the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Let us take the example of two men: one says he is a Socialist and believes that government should fix prices, control industry, and redistribute wealth from those who have to those who do not have, the other man says he is a Capitalist but...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Are You a Christian? Have you seen the evidence of salvation in you that only the Holy Spirit can produce? Have you been brought from spiritual death to spiritual life? Perhaps you are familiar with the idea of being "born again," but are...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Christians, you are always going to have sins you do not want to part with, the Puritans used to call these your besetting or "bosom sins" – If you are wondering what particular sin that is for you, here is a simple definition from Thomas...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Your faith, as Gordon Keddie put it, “is a great theory until it costs you something.” The German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoffer, wrote a book about the cost of following Christ called “The Cost of Discipleship.”...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I was doing (very slowly) my morning devotion in the Greek text of Matthew 1 and I’ve been sounding out the words which I hope will help me to remember them, when I came to this mouthful:...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
One of the things that we must NOT be satisfied with or fall into, is precisely the kind of CIVIL RELIGION that Judah had during Jeremiah's time. A formalistic religiousity, that is nationalistic but powerless and destructive. We wonder sometimes...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"As it is written, "Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated (Greek: Miseo)" (Romans 9:13) What did God make his choice of Jacob and his rejection of Esau based on? The answer is His own good pleasure. God says specifically that, before he...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I was reading a book recently in which someone described a particular day as the most important in his life, because it was the day when he was inducted into the Army. On that day he began a career that spanned three major wars, and changed the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
5) Read at Least Two Christian Biographies this Year Few things are as informative and encouraging as the biographies of great Christians. Through them, we learn that the God who equipped and sustained the Christians of the bible is still... [ abbreviated | read entire ]
