This typical objection to the existence of God almost always starts with an “If” followed by a “why.” “If” there is a God, then “why” is there suffering in this world? “If there is a God,“why” did He let my mother die?” “If” there is a God, “why” do I stru...
We trust God when we look to Him to deliver us in perils met in meek acceptance of His will. We tempt Him when we expect Him to save us from those encountered on roads that we have picked oat for ourselves. Such presumption disguised as filial trust is the temptation besetting the highe...
“Then theLordGod took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.And theLordGod commanded the man, saying, “Ofevery tree of the garden you may freely eat;but of thetree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of ...
not as a command. I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that. Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. But if they cannot control themselves, they...
To expect the conversion of sinners by prayer alone, without the employment of truth, is to tempt God. Our subject being Prevailing Prayer, I propose: - I. To show what is effectual or prevailing prayer. II. To state some of the most essential attributes of prevailing prayer. III. To gi...
There is also a period where we will be provided opportunity to see that God was just. The scripture tells us this about judgment: Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
I would soon feel the wrath of both Satan and my own sinful nature. Many people do not understand that when someone receives Christ and is given the Spirit of God, the two natures (spiritual and carnal) exist together until we are changed when Christ returns. Whichever of the two we feed...