matthew-28:18-20

Do you not sometimes moan over your want of power? You stand face to face with devil-tormented people, but you cannot cast the devil out. You feel that you aught to confess Christ in the workshop, in the business place, to the fellow passenger, and in the home, but your lips refuse to utter the mess... Read More

"Speak the truth in love" is the scriptural injunction (Ephesians 4:15). As easy as it seems we often see how difficult it is to obtain this balance. We so often become censorious or compromising. Some "contend for the faith" as they call it, quoting Jude 3, with bared fangs and upraised paws. The C... Read More

This is a day of extreme lawlessness--and the judgments of God are coming upon this ungodly generation except there be a deep repentance. Within the Church, too, there is a great amount of lawlessness--due in part to a misunderstanding as to God's plan for His people during the Church age. God the F... Read More

One of the essential components of a healthy spiritual life is a steady diet of good teaching. Every Christian needs others who can help instruct, explain and apply God’s Word to his or her life. The goal of good teaching is not only to pass along sound content, but also to promote godly living. The... Read More

Those who look eagerly for Christ's second coming are most eager also to complete the task of evangelism. "The gospel must first be preached unto all nations" "for a witness" (Mark 13:10; Matt. 24:14). There is no stronger incentive to immediate evangelism than the imminence of Christ's return.... T... Read More

Jesus never preached an easy Gospel, a soft, compromising way of salvation. Before we are saved, we live to please ourselves. When we get saved, we give up our own ways and seek to please God. "No man can serve two masters" (Matt. 6:24). "Whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, h... Read More

With all the talk in the church about spiritual warfare, too many Christians have not learned how to resist the enemy. In fact, few believers know how to stand up and fight, and they become real pushovers for the devil. The book of Judges tells us, “The children of Israel did evil in the sight of th... Read More

You have to learn to fight your own battles. You can’t depend on someone else for your deliverance! Perhaps you have a prayer warrior friend you can call and say, “I’ve got a battle before me. Will you pray for me? I know you have power with God!” That is scriptural—but it is not God’s complete will... Read More

Jesus told his disciples, “I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit” (John 15:16). Then he quickly added these solemn words: “That your fruit should remain.” These words of Christ apply to his disciples right up to this day. He is saying, in essence, “Be sure that your fruit w... Read More

Deserted (forsake, abandon, leave, left) (1459) (egkataleipo from en = in + kataleipo = forsake, desert) means literally to leave down in. It conveys the sense of deserting someone in a set of circumstances that are against them. The idea is to let one down, to desert, abandon, leave in the lurch, l... Read More