If anyone does, Paul should know! “What?” About “inner strength. “What’s that?” Well, let him tell you himself: That in keeping with His glorious riches, by His Spirit, He may make it possible for you to be strengthened with power in the inner person. Eph. 3:16 “Oh good! You just gave me a new entry …
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Being old isn’t easy. It has its compensations, but it is, in many ways, tough. After all, the cumulative effects of sin upon the body are ordinarily felt in old age. The prospect of death is there, of course. But so long as one has his relationship to God in order, he need not think …
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“Do you really believe that it will happen after waiting all of these years?” Why shouldn’t I. Those patriarchs waited, together with those who followed them, for millennia until Jesus came the first time. Why shouldn’t I expect to wait for His second coming as well? “I guess that’s so. But it’s almost like going …
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The following is part of a continuing series of excerpts from an as yet unpublished book by Dr. Adams entitled Adams’ Answers. “Nouthetic Counselors Oppose the Use of Medicine, Don’t They?” Of course not. From the outset of the Nouthetic movement we have worked closely with physicians. We feature them in training programs, publish their …
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The difficulty in attempting to explain the meaning of a passage of Scripture to one who has his mind made up already is a task greater than a human being possesses. Aren’t you glad that it’s the Holy Spirit Who illumines believers’ minds—and not you? Of course, He does so—interestingly—not apart from but, through the …
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