The Matchless Mine
by Zane Hodges, excerpted from The Journey of Faith: Sermons on Hebrews If you should ever happen to come to the city of Dallas, which I hope you will, let me recommend a restaurant to you. It is called Baby Doe’s. It is laid out in a turn of the century mine setup. The story […]
Alexander Patterson on The Judgment Seat of Christ
Alexander Patterson waves together many strands of truth when he writes about the Judgment Seat of Christ, “Not a service done for Christ loses its reward. ‘For his sake’ is the criterion by which everything is to be judged. The sacrifices of the believer are then shown and rewarded. It is then the Beatitudes are […]
Traditions Die Hard
Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity. (1 Timothy 2:7) No matter what our denominational background may be, we all have traditions. In my experience, there are a couple of things that stand out about […]
The Gift and The Reward. 2 Tim 2:11-13
by Brad Bell The emphasis of GES can be distilled to two essential elements. These elements are succinctly summarized in 2 Tim 2:11-13: This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him. This is the Gift. Unconditional. If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If […]
Justification before God Is by Faith Alone, Completely Apart from Works, Romans 3:26
by Zane Hodges, excerpted from his commentary on Romans The result of the death of Christ on the cross is that God can be righteous and justify the person who has faith in Jesus. The English necessarily obscures an obvious Greek word play, since the Greek words for righteous (dikaion) and justify (dikaiounta) are cognates […]
We Are More Sinful Than We Think
But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Mat 5:28) I live near a conservative evangelical Bible college and seminary. I visit it maybe three times a week in order to use their library. It is safe to say […]
Thanks, I needed That, Ezra 9:4
Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice. Ezra 9:4 When I was young there was a famous aftershave commercial. In the commercial a young man had […]
Rosenius on God justifying the ungodly
Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt. But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness (Rom 4:4-5). “These words present to us mysterious and strange governing principles in the Kingdom of Christ. Unworthy ones […]
Take care, lest we forget how to blush
In some recent blogs I wondered aloud if Christians in America today could look at certain things going on around us and conclude that judgment is coming to our country. It is interesting that just today I was listening to the radio on the way to work. Rush Limbaugh was quoting a recent survey that […]
After Just One Drink
by Diane Boring, originally published in the July/August 2013 edition of Grace in Focus Our Ladies’ Bible Study is going through the Gospel of John, and right now we’re in John 4—the encounter that Jesus had with the woman at the well. I’ve come to see that this is one of the greatest passages […]