I thought I had almost figured out dealing with theBig Life Changesconcept after having lived overseas for many years as a missionary. I’d been through many moves, learned a new language, and dealt with hard situations. Lots of changes, right? Years later, as I prepared to retire, I th...
Welcome We have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding to lead a life worthy of the Lord, f
If the central feature of the Scriptures is their idea of God, and if the climax of the biblical revelation is Christ, the greatest fact about Christ from the point of view of the Bible is his cross. We say _fact_ advisedly, for we are not dealing with the theories that have sprung...
In the year 1729,' wrote John Wesley, I began not only to read but to study the Bible.' The results of that devoted study of the Word of God are to be seen in every page that he wrote. Both the brothers must have had a most profound, exact, and extensive acquaintance with the S...
Do critics parse the words of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, or Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind?Yet, entire books have been written dealing a solitary Bible word. This is a telling phenomenon indeed.The careful and honest Bible student must acknowledge (and defend) the proposition that the ...
Recently while leading a Bible study dealing with prayer, I caught myself saying that prayer is communication with God. Communication involves talking "with" someone not "at" them or even just "to" them; it's a balance of talking and listening that brings a connection. And that is true,...
Isaiah 33:24"And the inhabitant will not say, "I am sick"; the people who dwell in it (Zion) will be forgiven their iniquity."NOTE- While this chapter in Isaiah is dealing with impending judgment with God's people (Zion) for repentance, notice that the forgiveness of their iniquity als...
one that says the sons of God are being Spirit led (Romans 8:14). Once we come to know Christ, we have a choice to make and we have to make it over and over again, daily, sometimes hourly: will I be Spirit-led or flesh-led as I go through life dealing with God”s provision?
*** Note that in the New Testament, “mystery” derives from a Greek word μυστήριον (mystērion) G3466 that means something that is hidden, secret, a mystery, a hidden purpose or counsel of God: the secret counsels which govern God in dealing with the righteous, which are...
The Israelitish dominion should reach to the Euphrates, and did actually “in its best days” reach to it, but there is no record of its extension to the Nile. We are not dealing here with a prophetic and spiritual word, but with the definite bounds of the land, for the race of Abra...