The Context of Humility in the Cosmic Purposes of God
Friday, April 11th, 2008In his book entitled, Humility, Andrew Murray calls humility “the only root from which the graces can grow.” In other words, there is no growth in grace and no receiving of anything from God without this ultimate and essential requirement. The scripture that supports this is: “He gives grace to the humble, but resists the […]
Reclaiming the Gospel
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008The very reduction of Paul’s glorious gospel to a formula for salvation to those who “accept” the Lord almost assures that what will follow will itself be nominal and fall short of the light of the glory which Paul proclaims.
The Context of the Coming Kingdom
Saturday, March 1st, 2008We either have an urgent expectancy of a coming, literal Kingdom on earth or we are in one way or another establishing our own little kingdom.
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit in a Last Days’ Context
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Our prayer is a little better than polite, but still not the gushing or ‘groaning that cannot be uttered’ that accompanied the intercessions of earlier Pentecostal generations whose crisis of need was evidently greater.
Reconsidering John 11 in the Context of Isaiah 49
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008They wept for what they thought was irretrievable loss; He wept for their weeping—not understanding the sovereignty and purpose of God in the death of their brother. Should they not have suspected by His inexplicable but calculated delay a purpose in that death in keeping with His previous words to them of His role in Israel’s eschatological destiny?