BACK TO THE LAW?
Not long ago I wrote a blog on whether or not salvation was by works. Of course, it is by faith. Our works give evidence of our salvation. They are incapable of producing or maintaining it. However, in addition to the fact that there are preachers and parishioners out there who make it sound […]
IS IT OVER?
When people argue or otherwise have issues with each other and then resolve the problem, things often go back to normal. In the future, however, when there is another dispute, sometimes one party will bring up what the other did the last time or even a long time ago. They may do this to […]
FEAR NOT
There are a lot of things which come against us over the course of our lives. Against the lost and the saved alike come the pressures of living, the threat of disease, the effects of aging, and many other things. One common denominator throughout the history of mankind has been fear. People have always […]
JONAH CHRISTIANS
Many people, at least among the older and middle-aged, know about the account of Jonah being swallowed by a big fish or whale and spending three days in its belly. Fewer know how he came to be there in the first place or what happened afterwards. God had told Jonah to go to the […]
NOT BY FORCE
Throughout much of Church history, believers have had the mistaken idea that they have to force the lost to convert to Christianity. The emperor Charlemagne, for example, who lived from the 740’s to 814 AD, would have pagans executed if they did not convert to the faith. [1] Although the purposes of the Roman Catholic […]
THIS IS CHURCH?
We have this misguided idea of what “church” is supposed to be like, especially those comprising the youngest generations, those who were not around when institutional Christianity at least tried to be more Biblical—tried, not was. But it was still far better back then than the collection of seeker-friendly, profit-hustling, worldly churches dotting the landscape […]
SALVATION: BY FAITH OR BY WORKS?
Ephesians 2:8-9: For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. James 2:14-18: What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother […]
GUARD YOUR HEART
Proverbs 4:23- Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life. The very first word in the above sentence, “keep,” is, in Hebrew, natsar (naw-TSAR), which essentially means “to guard,” according to Strong’s Concordance. Chances are you have heard this verse quoted at some point, maybe even a number of times, […]
DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE?
As Christians, we are to believe in the Bible—God’s Word—and obey it. Sadly, in these last days there is a lack of real belief in the Bible. Polls have been taken which show that those who identify as Christians are taking an increasingly fast and loose approach to Holy Writ. For some examples, a number […]
