We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn’t come naturally. It’s a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith...
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT OUT OF A LIFE TRANSFORMED BY THE WORD OF GOD? ·If you get into the habit of using religious language without knowing what you mean by it, you will increasingly become an empty shell. And many alien affections move into empty religious minds which...
WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES SOME PEOPLE PERSIST IN PRAYER WHILE OTHERS ARE CRUSHED BY ‘UNANSWERED PRAYER’? · When you cannot hear God, you will find that He has trusted you in the most intimate way possible — with absolute silence, not a silence of despair, but one of...
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO HAVE ONE’S NAME WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE? · When God writes our names in the ‘Lamb’s Book of Life’ He doesn’t do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity (R.C. Sproul) · There is paradox. The Bible teacher teaches...
To preach moral duty without the underlying power of the gospel is moralism that is both pathetic and powerless; to preach a watered-down gospel as that which tips us into the kingdom, to be followed by discipleship and deeds of mercy, is an anemic shadow of the...
