The One Necessary Thing
"That I may know Him... Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do... one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her" (Philippians 3:10,13 [...]
The Two Positions
The biggest little word and the most ubiquitous in Ephesians is the word "in." It is a preposition denoting position. God's Word gives our position precedence over our condition, because where we are determines what we are. Much of spiritual [...]
Paul’s View of Christ
The Jerusalem Church made a basic distinction between the person of Christ before and after Pentecost. All of their background and training dealt with Jesus as the Messiah. They continued to accept only the Jesus of history. The new Christianity, [...]
“Yes, but there is God”
The thing that helped me personally more than anything else to come to a conviction that God was really enough for me was an experience I had some years ago. It was at a time in my religious life when [...]
Perfect Light
God is revealing himself (1) as Nature and natural law; (2) as Spirit and as moral law; and (3) as Jesus Christ of the Cross and of the Resurrection. There is the light of the sun in natural laws, the [...]
10 Things You Can Learn from Noah’s Ark
1. Don't miss the boat. 2. Remember that we are all in the same boat. 3. Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark. 4. Stay fit. When you're 600 years old, someone may ask you to do [...]
Profession or Possession?
The Bible is a very realistic book. It describes human behavior as it is. It doesn't look through rose-tinted glasses and conclude that everyone is on God's side. Rather it carefully distinguishes between those who are only nominal followers of [...]
Thriving Outside the Box
I have never been able to enjoy looking at a bird in a cage, even if it is a nice cage. While it may provide a safe haven and contain all the food and water she will ever need it [...]
Guerrilla Warfare
One of our great difficulties, after we know who we are, is that under satanic pressure we so soon forget our position. For although Satan knows what Christ did to him at Calvary and through the Resurrection, and realizes that [...]
Living Indoors
There is only one way to conquer your five senses, and that is by inward recollection. Or, to put it another way, the only way to conquer your five senses is by "living indoors": turning your soul completely inward to [...]