ephesians-2:13

The third section of our diagram deals with the "so great salvation" (Heb. 2:3); a phrase which at once sets forth its comprehensiveness and inclusiveness. Under that term we gather the various words which represent its many-sidedness: Substitution; Representation; Redemption; Justification; Reconci... Read More

Sometimes the smallest words are the most powerful. Take the little word “if” for instance. When this two-letter word is ignored in Bible passages, it can result in a total misunderstanding of those passages. The three-letter word “but” is equally powerful, both in every-day use and in the Bible. Wh... Read More

Of course very few would ever say it out loud, but that does not stop people from feeling that God really had to save them because they have some value or merit. This idea is reinforced by modern teachings that God needed us and that He somehow was incomplete without us. At the very root of these id... Read More

I'm often asked about the most beautiful places I've seen on earth. I have a long list of those, but at the top would be Antarctica and then Greenland in the Arctic. The beauty is stunning and beyond words to express. I have been down to Antarctica at different places twice carrying the cross. What ... Read More

THE DEATH OF CHRIST § 19 ALL these things the Saviour thought fit to do, so that, recognising His bodily acts as works of God, men who were blind to His presence in creation might regain knowledge of the Father. For, as I said before, who that saw His authority over evil spirits and their response t... Read More

And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer; and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. --Paul the Apostle And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from trans... Read More

There are seven stages of awareness through which we must pass through in order to bring ourselves out of bondage towards the fullness of Truth and into the life of an Overcomer. This describes the spiritual growth of the Christian from sinner, to seeker, to believer, to disciple, and to overcomer. ... Read More

Excerpts from 'Devotional Classics' edited by Richard Foster and James Bryan Smith Deitrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) Introduction to the Author Bonhoeffer was born into a family of seven children in Breslau, Germany. He grew up in Berlin, where his father worked as a physician. His boyhood friends inc... Read More

Let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil. — There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked. In Christ Jesus ye who sometime were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. ... Read More

Oh that I knew where I might find him! Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his ser-vant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your h... Read More