My Top 50 Favorite Verses (4)
"His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very [...]
Happy Birthday, Church!
"And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place" (Acts 2:1 KJV). Pentecost (the word means fifty) was the Harvest feast in the Jewish calendar, and was always celebrated on the [...]
The one new man
If this was purely the dream of the man, called "Paul," then he could write novels or dramas such as no Dickens or Shakespeare ever approximated. But it was not the dream of Paul; it was the dream of the [...]
In two places at the one time
I ran across this comparison recently in Ephesians 1:1 — “Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus” (ESV). Notice the two prepositions “in”. […]
I in them…
"I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in me" (John 17:23 KJV). The Spirit becomes a personal possession -- personal to each believer. This could never be true of a relationship to Jesus. He [...]
The Reason Why
The Pauline Epistles must ever stand as the work of a super-genius or a divine revelation. They reveal what happened on the cross and what followed during the three days and three nights until the Man was raised from the [...]
The Believer’s Advantage
The Apostle Paul said his purpose and destiny was to preach Christ; warning all men and to teaching all men in all wisdom in order to present every man mature in Christ. His duty was to present Christ as our [...]
Myself God’s Sanctuary
Truth is often found in unexpected places, and here's a good example of that. Frederick Faber was already noted as a poet during his university days but is best known for his hymns "Faith of our Fathers" and "There is [...]
The essential newness of the New Creation
"If anyone is in Christ. the new creation has come. the old has gone, the new is here!" (II Corinthians 5:17). The Word teaches us very clearly that Christ has been taken right out of this old creation and set [...]
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 [...]