THE VICTORIOUS LIFE

“WE SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLAME BEFORE HIM!” (EPHESIANS 1:4). HOW DOES SOMEONE MISS THE MEANING OF THOSE SIMPLE WORDS? A BELIEVER FRUSTRATES THE GRACE OF GOD EVERY TIME THAT BELIEVER SINS! “A LITTLE LEAVEN LEAVENS THE WHOLE LUMP,” AND A...

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

“NOW UNTO HIM THAT IS ABLE TO KEEP YOU FROM FALLING (GREEK, APTAISTOS, ap-TAH’-ee-stos, “without sin”), AND TO PRESENT YOU FAULTLESS (WITHOUT SIN) BEFORE THE PRESENCE OF HIS GLORY WITH EXCEEDING JOY, TO THE ONLY WISE GOD OUR SAVIOR, BE GLORY...

THESE THINGS COMMAND AND TEACH

What happened to modesty among God’s people?  Immediately after stating forthrightly that he was an apostle, speaking the truth in Christ, Paul urges that the women in the assembly dress modestly. (See I Timothy 2:7-10).  In chapter 3 of I Timothy, Paul tells...

THE SCRIPTURES’ MOST VICTORIOUS CHRISTIAN!

Approximately six years before writing the Roman letter, Paul had written the believers at Thessalonica: “You are witnesses, and God also (notice now Paul says God will attest to what he is about to say), how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved...

JONAH’S ONE-OF-A-KIND SUBMERSIBLE!

“When my soul fainted within me (or, when I lost almost all hope that I could live any longer), I remembered the Lord. (Jonah says he no longer considered his dire circumstances. He remembered with whom he had a vital, tangible, real connection and...