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…
Sanctification means to set apart — to consecrate something or someone for God’s specific use or service. The word carries no inherent reference to moral sinlessness; it refers to the status of belonging to God, of being separated from common use for sacred use. In the…
James teaches suffering Christians to endure by looking at the prophets, learning from Job, and trusting the Lord whose compassion is not cancelled by the furnace. Obedience may hurt, suffering may come without explanation, but God has not surrendered the story.
Because God is all-wise, all-powerful, and good, He gave a book that completely supplies man’s every spiritual need; Scripture is therefore sufficient, and the man of God equipped by it needs nothing added to it. A congregation rarely denies the Bible outright. It simply acts as…
The Bible is not merely a book of rules to obey or doctrine to believe; it is the soul’s food, its companion in every mood, and the supply of its every need — and there is no other source for what it gives. Most believers value…
Every person who has ever faced his own sin has had to say the same three words: “I have sinned” — but what those three words mean depends entirely on the heart that speaks them. “I have sinned.” The phrase runs through Scripture like a wound….
Psalm 8 is a psalm of wonder: “When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained; what is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him?” (Ps….
Pardon is not a vague benefit distributed in unspecified ways; it is a specific restoration to a specific condition, given through specific means authorized by the specific person who has the right to grant it. There are two laws of pardon: one for the alien sinner…
The soul is worth more than the whole world — the Lord said so, and his statement has never been answered. The person who would not trade their house for a dollar still trades their soul daily for far less than the whole world. The four…
The Holy Spirit’s role in material creation is not incidental — it is specific, distinct from the roles of the Father and the Son, and ongoing. The Father originated and rules; the Word created and sustains; the Spirit organized the chaotic mass, gave laws for the…