The eldership did not pass away with the age of miraculous gifts; because elders were not inspired men but qualified men, because their work of feeding and ruling the flock is still needed, and because God ordained the office and never repealed it, the eldership continues…
Life is shaped by its decisions; Scripture is full of those who chose well and those who failed to choose at all, and every soul must finally make the great decision for God personally — for no one, in heaven or on earth, can make it…
God has always blessed obedience and condemned disobedience; there is only one way to obey — to do what God says, as He directs — but four ways to disobey: refusing, adding, subtracting, and substituting, and all four stand equally condemned. Man is the most disobedient…
God has always required His people to give; since we own nothing but merely steward what is already His, the Christian gives himself first and then his means — liberally, freely, willingly, as he has prospered, regularly through the church and as need arises among men….
The dangers that ruin a life are usually not the great and obvious ones but the small, unseen ones — little faults of conduct, little compromises in our company, little neglects in our spiritual life — and wisdom watches for these “little foxes” before they spoil…
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 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” —…