We live in strange times. While the Bible-believing church is polarized on a wide range of hot-button “issues,” it neglects the powerful truths lying at the center of our faith. The atmosphere of contemporary evangelicalism too often is overreaction and misplaced enthusiasm. We are not as biblical as we think we are. For example, some earnest Christians seem afraid of …
It is not that Christians are to “give thanks” with a plastic smile, saying things are wonderful when they are hard. It is knowing that the hard things are really hard things, a result of the abnormality since the Fall, yet not revolting against God when the hard things come. It is in this sense we are to say “thank …
Revival is a season in the life of the church when God causes the normal ministry of the gospel to surge forward with extraordinary spiritual power. Revival is seasonal, not perennial. God causes it; we do not. It is the normal ministry of the gospel, not something eccentric or even different from what the church is always charged to do. …
In that great separation between God and man caused by our sin and apostasy which of itself could result in nothing but the utter ruin of the whole human race, there was none in heaven or earth who was fit or able to reconcile them and bring about a righteous peace between them. Yet this must be done and could …
We should also realize that Satan is our accuser; in fact, that seems to be his primary strategy toward sincere believers … God no longer allows Satan to accuse us before Him. In fact, we might say God has thrown Satan out of His heavenly courtroom. However, although Satan can no longer accuse us before God, he accuses us to …
The truth is, we’re all terrible friends to Jesus. But he is still the truest friend we could have. In John 15:15, Jesus says to his disciples, “I do not call you servants anymore, because a servant doesn’t know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have heard …
The question before us is what the Christian life, true spirituality, really is, and how it may be lived in a twentieth-century setting. The first point which we must make is that it is impossible even to begin living the Christian life, or to know anything of true spirituality, before one is a Christian. And the only way to become …
