"It is indeed to be desired that solid scriptural theology...should be valued and studied in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith and practice-books in which Christ and the Holy Ghost have their...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"The change which our Lord here declares (John 3:3) needful to salvation is evidently no slight or superficial one. It is not merely reformation, or amendment, or moral change, or outward alteration of life. It is a thorough change of heart, will,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Is God Anti-gay?: And Other Questions about Homosexuality, the Bible, and Same Sex Attraction. By Sam Allberry. The Goodbook Company: UK, NA, 2013. There is no doubt in my mind that the issue of our day is homosexuality, and there is equally no...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In his chapter on Prayer in The Institutes, John Calvin gives these 6 reasons: Dependence - to “become accustomed in every need to flee to Him as to a sacred anchor” Purity - to keep our hearts nurturing pure desires and resisting...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The word “disciple” in an of itself simply means “follower of Jesus” in the Scripture. There are at least three ways the Bible speaks of disciples of Jesus though according to the context in which the word is found....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"...a sincere, sensible (passionate), affectionate pouring out of the heart or soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised, or according to His Word, for the good of the church,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The Word - v1 God - v1 Life - v4 The Light - v4 The true Light - v9 The only Son from the Father - v14 Full of grace and truth - v14 Jesus Christ - v17 The only God at the Father’s side - v18 the Lord - v23 The Lamb of God - v29 Jesus - v29...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
If anyone should have known that Jesus was the Son of God, the Messiah, it should have been John the Baptist! Right? He had more reason to know than anyone else. His mother Elizabeth knew (Luke 1:43). His first encounter with Jesus, although in...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The Word Became Flesh (John 1:14) - The deity took on humanity. The divine was clothed in human flesh. The humanity of Christ cloaked His divine nature, but it did not lessen or weaken it. The divine nature assumed a complete human nature but did...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13 A cursory reading of John 1:12-13...[ abbreviated | read entire ]