Everything in Christianity hangs on faith — “without faith it is impossible to please Him” (Heb. 11:6) — yet faith is one of the most misunderstood words in religion. Some make it a leap in the dark; some make it mere opinion; some make it a…
The millennial theory is built on a single figurative text in the most symbolic book of the New Testament. Every other fundamental doctrine of the New Testament is taught repeatedly in plain language. The Millennium is not. Only speculative teaching can be given for it —…
God’s holiness demands justice just as much as His nature defines love; to deny His judgment is to deny His very nature. The “Yeah, but… God is love” objection fails because it tries to pit God’s love against God’s justice.
The New Testament church has identifying marks — undenominational, congregationally governed, missionary, made up of converted and worshipping and united and pure members — and every member should know them well enough to help keep the church true to the pattern. A congregation drifts the way…
The conflicts we see in homes and churches are only the smoke. James reveals that the real war rages within the human heart. Selfish desires, when left unmortified, produce quarrels, corrupt prayer, and spiritual compromise. James 4:1–4 exposes the internal battle between flesh and Spirit and calls believers to reject friendship with the world and return to wholehearted loyalty to Christ.
The outline defines forgiveness this way: to hold one as though no offense had been given — in love, in sympathy, with full interest and goodwill, as though nothing had happened. That is a demanding standard, and most of us know it. The question is not…
Prayer is not the whole of the Christian’s responsibility to the thing prayed for. Prayer opens the transaction; action completes it. The person who prays for the sick and does not visit them; who prays for the gospel to spread and does not share it; who…
A Christian is not merely a good person, a religious person, an Old Testament saint, or a church member, but one who has become a new creature in Christ — dead to sin and risen to new life through faith and baptism, a citizen of the…
“Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings” (Ps. 17:8). David wrote that under pressure. Jesus said: “I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand”…
Every Christian is a priest. Not in a metaphorical sense — in the direct biblical sense of I Peter 2:5 and 2:9. The structure of the Levitical priesthood (one High Priest, many secondary priests, qualifications, duties, sacrifices, altar) is replicated exactly in the Christian age: Christ…