When someone gives me a gift, or teaches me something, or takes me somewhere, whenever I use or do or visit in the future, I pray for them.
Practical steps to help you fight pride.
Sometimes we take good advice. Sometimes we don’t. What about biblical exhortations? Take the following, for example: “always [be] prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you” (1 Pet 3:15). This instruction makes a lot of sense to a Christian.
You could change the world, just like Albert McMakin did when he asked a young man he knew to an evangelistic event.
Seemingly small chunks of time add up, and I get quality reading done when I take advantage of them.
According to Paul, the aim of preaching is not to mystify people or to promote a personality or to gain profit; rather it is to set forth the truth plainly.
I am very visible to my neighbours. Every time they stop to wave at my daughter, I find out a little bit more about them, and they about me.
This is the story of two men who decided to keep sharing the gospel in the face of personal tragedy.
In a previous post, I proposed regarding the analogy of the vine (John 15) that we sometimes mistake our leaves for fruit, thinking that if we’re “getting involved” in ministry, we’re producing fruit. But ministry activities are just leaves—an essential part of the health of our ‘branch’, but not what makes God’s mouth water. Leaves aren’t yummy to him; fruit is.
A Christian is “at the same time justified and a sinner” (simul iustus et peccator). It is one of the more well-known phrases of the Reformation. God in his grace and mercy has declared the Christian to be righteous due to the atoning work of Jesus Christ. And what God declares something to be, truly is. And yet at the same time, sin is still at work in our flesh.