People! You just can’t imagine what they will think of or do next. “What’s got you all gussied up today?” Oh, I don’t know. It’s just that when you try to help, many people take offense at the offer. “Someone give you a hard time?” No. I’m thinking about someone else who received a number …
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Luke 17:17 Ten lepers were cleansed of leprosy because they obeyed. But the obedience of nine was evidently self-centered. Only one returned to thank Jesus and praise God for his healing—and “He was a Samaritan.” The thoughtlessness of forgiven sinners is often similar to this incident. Christians, like these Jews, are happy to be saved, …
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Reformation teaching about justification and subsequent obedience hasn’t changed. The only obedience that God accepts is that which comes from the work of the Spirit within the believer. It is, therefore, both the fruit of the Spirit and the work of the Christian. To position one of these aspects of biblical obedience over against the …
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A new era began with John the baptizer. Jesus said, The Law and the Prophets were until John; since then the good news of the kingdom of God has been proclaimed (Luke 16:18; HCSB). The Old Testament era, otherwise called the period of the Law and the Prophets (as here), had come to an end. …
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When things don’t go their way politically—or otherwise—people, many of whom are believers, start bewailing circumstances as if God had died. Let me speak a word to all who will listen: God’s still in complete control of everything. The world isn’t out of control. He’s still providentially at work in His world. Of course things …
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