The Fire of God’s Judgment
Saturday, March 1st, 2008A powerful cry of God to sound the trumpet call of repentance in the light of His soon coming judgment with a fire that cannot be quenched.
The End -Time Man of God
Saturday, March 1st, 2008As with Elijah, we can expect that God will thrust His servants into a world that is plunging deeper into tragedy, suffering, and crisis.
The Radical Kingdom of God: Conventional Christianity or Biblical Faith?
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008There is a remarkable indifference in the earth to the fact that this planet was visited by God. I think we just have to recognize that we are in a kind of sleepwalk, a stupor; the god of this world has blinded the minds, not only of those who do not believe, but also of those who only nominally believe.
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?
Holiness – The High Calling of God in Christ Jesus
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008I have never heard anyone else equate perfect holiness as being the mark of the high calling of God. Usually ‘high calling’ would be some final and ultimate expression of ministry in the bringing of the Word, but in Spurgeon’s view, which we need to soberly consider, the issue of high calling is the issue of holiness.
Some Comments on Netanyahu’s Election in Israel: A Prelude to Coming Disaster?
Thursday, February 7th, 2008While the upset victory of Benjamin Netanyahu may astonish, shock or delight one faction or another, what significance can it hold in effecting any real change in Israel’s perilous situation?
The Mystery of the Wisdom of God
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Paul is now going to reveal the mystery for which reason all things were created. This mystery has nothing to do with anything that we can recognize as being valid or relevant for the church. It has not even to do with the world or the benefits that men in the world will receive.
Teaching: A Moral Vocation
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Teaching touches the lives of students in those things that have to do with moral questions: questions of meaning and questions of value. What is really true? What is really desirable? What is real? What is reality itself? Whether you are conscious of it or not, you are touching all of these questions every day, in one way or another; therefore, it is important that you become conscious of it and you need to ask yourself what do I consider moral, true, righteous and good? To be truly moral, one must be heedlessly ruthless against one’s self-indulgence in favor of what is right, no matter what the cost or consequence to one’s own comfort or that of others.
God: The Forgotten Father and Author of His Son’s Passion
Thursday, February 7th, 2008In all of the present and increasing controversy over Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion, little or nothing is said about the role of God the Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Israel’s God, in the suffering and Crucifixion of Jesus.
God Crucified
Thursday, February 7th, 2008We shall be the victims of such compromise as the intensity of the temptations increase enormously as we come deeper into the end of the age, and increasing to the degree to which we have not really appropriated the Cross of Jesus Christ!
God as a Factor in the Secular Affairs of Men
Thursday, February 7th, 2008I don’t know if anyone has noticed lately, but God, so long restricted to mere Friday through Sunday religious acknowledgment, is threatening to become a factor in the more serious affairs of men where He is usually excluded.
Esteeming the Presence
Thursday, February 7th, 2008I have for a long time been secretly irked in my inner man with the growing preoccupation of many of God’s saints to desire the ‘presence’ of God.
Eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Few of us, even as Christians, realize the continual danger that this ultimate temptation constitutes. It is the delicious area of being ‘as God’ – judging and deciding, usually about others, those delicate and intangible things that can only be known by Him who alone is Judge.
Contemporary Worship: The Malady of the Church
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Whatever is self-initiated, however well-meaning the motive, is not of God. He alone is the Creator-King who disposes from the Throne what He wills when He wills.
Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth:
Thursday, February 7th, 2008While it is true that Jesus enjoins us in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:38) not to requite others who have requited us, and that while we must not require ‘retaliation,’ may God for the purposes of righteousness and cosmic justice not require it of Himself?
Confrontation with the Living God
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Though confident in their own opinions, many enjoy calling themselves truth-seekers, but a confrontation with the Living God sharply reveals the deep insincerity of the human heart.
A Plea for the Serious Consideration of God
Monday, February 4th, 2008A message, especially but not exclusively, for our Jewish kinsmen as we approach the end of the millennium Be still and know that I am God…(Psalm 46:10) There is a connection between the strange providences of God and what we know of Him, and we have to learn to interpret the mysteries of life in […]
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