The Order Of Things

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” John 14:15 No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist. Jesus explicitly establishes the order: first love (fellowship), then keeping...

Social Justice Is Not Biblical Justice

“The Lord has told us what is good: do justice, hesed love, and walk humbly with your God.” Micah 6:8 (Note 1) (Note2) As Christians it is essential that we distinguish biblical justice from the contemporary political use of the term social justice. Some believers use...

All Manner Of Things Will Be Well

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28 KJV Everything will be OK in the end. If it’s not OK, it is not the end.

Death And Spiritual Death

“Truly, truly, I say to you, the one who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.“ John 5:24 NASB When Jesus speaks of death, He distinguishes physical death from spiritual...

The Light

“And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” John 3:19 NKJV To say that God turns away from sinners is like saying that the sun hides from the blind. The Light...

Beauty For Ashes

The Prophet Isaiah circa 700 BC: “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, therefore hath the Lord anointed me: He hath sent me to preach good tidings unto the poor, to bind up the broken hearted, to preach liberty to the captives, and to them that are bound, the...