"Behold, we go up to Jerusalem." Luke 18:31

"We start with Christ and we end with Him—'until we all attain to the stature of the manhood of Christ Jesus,' not to our idea of what the Christian life should be. The aim of the missionary is to…

God's Faithful Church versus today's "Cultural Christianity"

1. Missing it

      "And they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the…

The  of the Lord is with them that fear him (Ps. 25:14).

Evangelicals Reject God’s Holiness

From "No Place for Truth: Or whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology" (Eerdmans, 1993),…

 1But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 2Many will follow their sensuality, and because of…

And there arose a great storm (Mark 4:37).

Some of the storms of life come suddenly: a great sorrow, a bitter disappointment, a crushing defeat. Some come slowly. They appear upon the ragged…

Knowing & Doing God's will

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"I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do. " John 17:4

"There is no room for looking on Jesus Christ as a martyr; His death was not…

The Unknown Saints 

by A.W. Tozer, Man: The Dwelling Place Of God, pg. 95-99 

(c) 1966 Christian Publications

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH IN A FINE PASSAGE states his belief that there are many more poets in the world than we suppose,…

I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling place (Isaiah 18:4, RV).

Assyria was marching against Ethiopia, the people of which are described as…

Lonely, But Never Alone

by Chip Brogden

There are many in the Body of Christ who are in…

The religious atmosphere of the present time is much changed from what it was in my younger days; and I may be allowed to note the difference. The theological crisis through which we are passing is a peculiar one, such as the men of fifty years ago would have thought very unlikely; and I wish to mark some of its more important characteristics.…

Ten thousand enemies cannot stop a Christian, cannot even slow him down, if he meets them in a attitude of complete trust in God. They will become to him like the atmosphere that resists the airplane, but which because the plane's designer knew how to take advantage of that resistance, actually lifts the plane aloft and holds it there for a journey of 2,000 miles. What would have been an enemy to the plane becomes a helpful servant to…

The Gospel, Cheap Grace, and a Lost Eternity

The gospel most evangelicals in the West preach today bears little resemblance to that found in the New Testament. Increasingly the very heart of the biblical gospel message is being stripped away, leaving a shell which offers little of what Jesus and the disciples…

I have never really used the blog...to post anything personal, but I have been very burdened by many of the responses here.  I don't understand...the hatred and contempt that I have aroused here.  I don't understand why the very words of Jesus are being tossed out and excused, for instance, judging false teachers.  This is now a bad thing?  We are to just let alone and be silent?  That is inexcusable and disobedient to God.  

To state that someone will be saved even if they pursue…