Everyone forms some estimate of Christ, and most estimates fall short of the truth; only the confession “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” is the correct one — and which estimate a person holds settles his destiny. At Caesarea Philippi Jesus asked…
Christians are God’s fellow workers — not because God needs us, but because He has chosen to build His kingdom through human agents; this privilege carries both dignity and accountability, and the work is tested by fire. “For we are God’s fellow workers” (1 Cor. 3:9)….
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 —…
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 invitation of Matthew 11:28-30 is the most gracious ever spoken because of who speaks it, the scope of the hearing it gives, and the completeness of the relief it offers. No burden is excluded; no person is excluded; no era is excluded. The promise is…
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 kingdom of Christ is not a future, earthly, material realm awaiting His return; it is here now — begun at Pentecost, spiritual in nature, with Christ already reigning — and it is identical with the church, as both Christ and Paul plainly teach. The whole…
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…
“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”…
The peacemaker is not the person who avoids all conflict but the person who wages war against the things that destroy peace — sin, division, injustice, unbelief — with weapons that do not include carnal force. The Christian is a soldier of peace whose army and…