The church is a divine-human institution: its strength is wholly in its divine element — God’s plan, Christ’s blood, His headship, the Spirit’s indwelling — and its weakness is wholly in its human element, the frail members who carry the work; so the cure for the…
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…
God has written one law across creation in the shape of a circle: what goes out comes back — in the physical world dust returns to dust, in the moral world a man reaps what he sows, and in the spiritual world he receives the measure…
The second coming of Christ is a fundamental, frequently-taught fact of the New Testament, to be neither ignored nor turned into a hobby; and because Scripture said certain things must occur before He came, the New Testament does not teach that His return was “imminent” —…
The decisive question about the second coming is not when but why — and Scripture answers plainly: Christ comes not to set up an earthly kingdom but to complete the church, end every agency of salvation, close the church’s ordinances and His own intercession, raise and…
The New Testament church had a simple, God-given organization — apostles in the foundation age, then elders (a plurality overseeing each congregation), deacons who serve, and evangelists who preach — with Christ alone as Head and no office above the local church. The New Testament never…
When Jesus rolled up the scroll at Nazareth, He gave us a picture of His whole work: He closed the book on Old Testament prophecy by fulfilling it, completed God’s revelation as the final Word, and will one day close the book on human history and…
We hold in our hands the most familiar and the most neglected book on earth. Familiar, because it sits in every home; neglected, because we rarely stop to consider what it actually is. Boles asks us to look at the Book itself — its impossible unity…
To enter the kingdom a man must be born again — begotten by the Spirit through the word and delivered through the water of baptism; “born of water and the Spirit” is not natural birth and not a direct, wordless work of the Spirit, but the…
Salvation is in Christ, and to be in Christ is to be in His body, the church; therefore no one — however good — is saved outside the church, because every saving blessing God gives is found only there. This question makes people uncomfortable, and it…