"I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ" (Galatians 1:12 ESV). The certainty and the assurance that was right at the root of his (Paul's) [...]

A divine arrangement is a certain method or rule by which God works. Never ask Him to change to accommodate your mind; adapt yourself to His method. II Timothy 1:7: "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, [...]

For just about all of us, within 30 seconds to 1 minute after coming out the womb we started crying. Nowadays gentle stimulation is used but in my day the baby was slapped on the bottom. And even for a [...]

There is a repeated term in the KJV that provides valuable truth. It appears five times in Romans chapter 5, and verse 20b reads, "But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound", or in the Message paraphrase, "When it's [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]