This warning from the Lord establishes the terrifying possibility that one can acknowledge Jesus verbally and intellectually yet be rejected at the judgment for a lack of obedient action.
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 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…
It is a strange thing that the simplest command in the New Testament has become the most disputed. Boles noticed it: no inspired man ever had to preach a whole sermon arguing for baptism, because it was told in a few plain words and obeyed on…
Preaching is not one method of Christian communication among others — it is the method that God ordained for the propagation of the gospel, that every generation of the church has required, and without which no generation can hear. Its weakness in any era is not…
Sin did not originate with God. God created beings with the power to choose; some chose to disobey. The origin of sin is the misuse of freedom, not a failure in the design that produced the freedom. The first sins were angelic; the first human sin…
Responsibility is not assigned generically — it is measured by ability and opportunity. The Christian who has both is the most accountable person in the world: accountable for what they do, accountable for what they could have done and did not, and accountable for whether they…
A sermon by Ed Rangel from Ezekiel, exploring Scripture and its application to Christian life and faith.
A sermon by Ed Rangel from Ezekiel, exploring Scripture and its application to Christian life and faith.
A sermon by Ed Rangel from Ezekiel, exploring Scripture and its application to Christian life and faith.