A blessing is given to those not offended by Jesus: “…blessed is he who is not offended because of Me.” Matthew 11:6 The Solution: The solution is obvious when we consider and understand the truth about the human heart. Everyday people are born in this world who will reset the chai...
As I read this passage previously, I did not make such a connection. I had not associated these folk that Paul is warning Titus about as being believers, but of those who are of the circumcision, as verse 10 refers to. Titus 1:10 For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers...
My hope is that the Lord will always place men in my life who are more concerned about my character before God then they are about maintaining my approval. There is nothing I respect more then a friend who loves me enough to gently but directly, confront me when I’m not hitting the ...
And when we read passages in the Bible that talk about “in the world but not of the world” or “those who have ears should hear” or “He was in the world but the world did not know Him” we should also think about this meaning. As Christians, it’s not us versus them. Just ...
and not the act of them all in grosse, as of one body; much lesse that act of them that were absent, or that being present, were not willing it should be done. According to this sense, I define a CHURCH to be, "A company of men professing Christian Religion, united in the person...
there is much about the Christian life that is beautiful. There is a love and kindness in Christianity that the world does not know and never will, because it does not know Christ. Though we cannot say and do all that Jesus did, nor can we be as perfect as He was; yet we are to...
If it is duty it is possible, and we should set about being revived ourselves, and, relying on the promise of Christ to be with us in making disciples always and everywhere, we ought to labor to revive Christians and convert sinners, with a confident expectation of success. Therefore, ...
11Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two touching anotherbeing, and two covering their bodies.12And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went…19Whenever the living beings moved,the ...