God blesses men through men. This has been his consistent pattern from Abraham to Christ: the person through whom God works is the person God has sanctified — set apart, consecrated, made fit for the work assigned. The degree of sanctification corresponds to the greatness of…
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…
Love is the defining characteristic of the disciple of Jesus — toward God, toward enemies, toward the brotherhood, toward the sinner. The test of Christian identity that Jesus himself set is not doctrinal precision but visible love: “By this all men will know that you are…
The last words of Scripture before the benediction are not a command, a condemnation, or a prophecy — they are an invitation, and that invitation is deliberately open to anyone who will come. The book of Revelation closes with a scene of cosmic completion: the new…
Two Deborahs appear in Scripture: Rebekah’s nurse (Gen. 35:8), and the prophetess of the book of Judges. The name means “a bee.” This outline considers her under five heads: her history, her victory with Barak, her calling of a man to help her, her faith in…
The power of example is greater than the power of teaching; every Christian is an example whether he chooses to be or not, and his only real choice is what kind of example to be — so each is called to be an example in word…
The sin that struck Ananias and Sapphira dead was not stinginess and not even mere lying to men; it was hypocrisy before God — the loss of the sense that God inspects the heart — and that sin is as deadly to a congregation now as…