When God desired to be among His people, did He descend in a majestic display of unviewable glory? Does He pave Himself a road across the wilderness and construct Himself a massive edifice by which to distinguish Himself from His people? No. He...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor,and another unto dishonor?” ~ Romans 9:21 As a potter has the authority and power over clay to make of it whatever he wants, so does God...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The flesh of the believer must be restrained. The flesh of a believer is as corrupt as that of an unbeliever, and because the honor of the Lord in this world is at stake, the believer must "deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts". But how is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? ~Romans 9:21 As a potter has the authority and power over clay to make of it whatever he wants, so does God have authority and...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
We may judge accurately of a man’s profession by this standard: Does he love the gospel of Jesus Christ? If he does not love the preaching of Christ, it can only be he does not love the Christ that is preached.
Christ is the issue, isn’t He? I find it revealing that the point of Calvinistic theology which is most controverted is “Limited Atonement”, the one point of the five that specifically deals with Christ. Not matter what the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When knowledge of the truth does not lead us to worship the Lord in love with a sense of awe, it is evidence that our knowledge of the truth has not gone beyond our brains – it has not penetrated our hearts. Divine truth was not given to...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
And if God rescued Lot, a righteous man…2 Peter 2.7 Considering the life of Lot, “a righteous man” seems an inappropriate tile to pin on him. Fleshly, money-hungry, compromising, drunk, and incestuous all seem fitting, but not,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Many have been led to believe that God is mean. Our natural, corrupt minds have taken the truth of God's absolute holiness, justice and sovereignty and corrupted it into mean-ness. Some would have us believe that God saves only reluctantly; only...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
It has often been debated whether Arminian (free-will) faith can save. The better question is: Can the Arminian god save? Our usual answer has been, “No, for even the Arminian says that his god, “can’t save...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
