My late father-in-law had a wonderful saying. When listening to a song on radio by some screaming rock-and-roller he would say, "If that man was convicted for being a singer they would be hanging an innocent man!" The saying is [...]
I was born into a religious tradition that made much of believers sharing their spiritual experiences and relationships with the whole church on Sunday. I've spoken before of one young man who stood up on Sunday morning and said, "Saved, [...]
[Written in 1942 -- 70 years ago] The church has been very strong in teaching man his need of Righteousness, his weakness and inability to please God. She has been very strong in her denunciation of sins in the believer. [...]
A TV evangelist last night said Christians are fooling themselves if they think they can handle sin. He said it is too powerful, too pervasive, too universal. And I'm sitting in my lounge chair saying "Twaddle". If the evangelist had [...]
Some believers find it difficult to understand that since they are "complete in Him" (Colossians 2:9-10), then how can they possibly "grow in Christ". At the other end of the spectrum we have believers who want God to make them [...]
It only takes one scripture verse to change your life forever. Have you found your verse yet? Are you really looking? Martin Luther, in around 1513-14, found his verse, Romans 1:17, "The just shall live by faith", and started the [...]
Yes, a strange situation to go from being free to becoming a slave. Yet this is what Romans 6:15-23 is all about. In fact, one translation has this heading over the passage: From Slaves of Sin to Slaves of God. [...]
"If it were not for this thing you call sin-consciousness, I would have faith. If I had faith, I would have my healing. But the Word does not seem real to me. I read it, and I say, 'By His [...]
No matter from what angle you look at Christianity, it is a miracle. The most amazing miracle is the New Creation. We have never been able to get at the heart of it. We have stood outside as spectators and [...]
When I first heard that believers were enjoying an experience called the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, it was some 50 years after the noted Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles in 1906. I was taught that the way to [...]