In this study of Galatians 6:14, Preacher Ed explores the profound paradox of the cross. Once a symbol of ultimate shame and humiliation, the cross is the sole ground of the Christian’s boast because it transforms death into life and sin into salvation. Discover why the cross declares that your life is not futile, your failures are not fatal, and your death is not final.
The same office is named by several scriptural words — overseer, elder, shepherd, ruler, leader — and its qualifications, twenty in all from Timothy and Titus, are not impossibly high but are largely the marks of a mature Christian, attainable now as they were then. Many…
The marriage of one man to one woman is not incidental imagery — it is the relationship God uses to describe the bond between Christ and his church. One Christ; one church. Any affection given to a substitute institution is spiritual adultery. Paul’s instruction in Ephesians…
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God” (Phil. 4:6). Thanksgiving is not a season or a ceremony — it is the ongoing posture of the person who has understood what they have…
This lesson from 2 Peter 1:10–11 explains where true assurance of salvation is found and where it is not. Assurance does not rest on feelings, perfect knowledge, perfect obedience, or good works, but on being in Christ and walking in the light. God promises confidence and stability to those who are diligent and faithful in their walk with Him.
Christ is the Prince of Peace, who alone gives peace with God, peace with others, and peace within; sin is the disturber of all three, and that peace is enjoyed only by being reconciled to God in Christ and submitting to His terms. Everyone is hunting…
The church is in the world but not of it; worldliness creeps in through worldly leadership, worldly recreation, idle and unspiritual members, and neglected worship — and the only cure is for each member to refuse to be conformed to the world. Jesus prayed for His…
Separation is the governing experience of fallen human existence. It begins with the separation of man from God in the garden and ends at the judgment with the ultimate, eternal separation of the righteous and the wicked. Between those two poles, every form of separation —…
The Christian life is lived under the figure of warfare — not physical warfare against human enemies, but spiritual warfare against the enemies of the soul, supremely the internal enemies: undisciplined thoughts, bodily passions, the self that must be mastered and crucified daily. God cannot use…
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 —…