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Why The Church Has Failed
[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. She has preached against unbelief, [...]
Is sin too powerful for Christians?
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 not used the word "Christian" [...]
Growing in Christ
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 better than they are. In [...]
It only takes one verse
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 Reformation. After twelve years of [...]
Free to be a Slave
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. Verse 18 seems to be [...]
Jesus the Healer
"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 stripes I am healed' and [...]
The most amazing miracle
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 looked at it from its [...]
Tarry or Act?
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 receive this experience was to [...]
Christ is in you, a glorious discovery
The apostle's secret of "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27) is one which the world cannot grasp. Think of it and try to realize it. God is not only a God who mercifully pardons our guilt and saves us from its consequences, [...]
The Law of First Mention
One of the principles of interpretation of the Bible (Bible hermeneutics) is the law of first mention. Dr. F.E. Marsh (a Baptist pastor) in his excellent work The Structural Principles of the Bible, defines it this way: "The first time a word occurs in the [...]