luke-9:23

1. Dangers continue, after the first difficulties (considered Chap. xvi.) are broken through.--2. Particular cautions--against a sluggish and indolent temper.--3. Against the excessive love of sensitive pleasure.--4. Leading to a neglect of business and needless expense.--5. Against the snares of ev... Read More

Some of the portrayals of heaven in my novels Deadline and Dominion are surprising and unconventional. They are based on some views of heaven which, though not widely embraced, I believe are nonetheless founded on Scripture: 1. In heaven, we'll see clearly (1 Cor. 13:12), but won't know everything. ... Read More

What Does Revival Do? by Ralph Sutera 1. MAKE THE GOSPEL SENSIBLE Apologetics is superceded by reality. Picture of God is made clear to the world. The "fulfilled law" is made clear. 2. MAKES THE CHRISTIAN LIFE PRACTICAL Henry Teichrob said: "once I dealt with my sin, I now could go to God for other ... Read More

"To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lamp stands. I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance; and how you cannot bear evil men but have tested those who call themselves apostles but a... Read More

When Jesus of Nazareth hung on the cross that dark Friday afternoon, it looked like the end of the road. He’d had a good run while it lasted. He shook things up for a while. Now it’s over. He’s done. Everybody can see that this prophet wasn’t the prophet he claimed to be. His disciples were devastat... Read More

Question. What is the True RELIGION? A. Pure Religion and Undefiled is this, To visit the Fatherless and the Widow in their Affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the World [Jas. 1:27]. Q. What is required of Man? A. He hath showed thee, O man, what is good: and what doth the Lord require of... Read More

The Sacred Import of the Christian Name by Samuel Davies "The disciples were first called Christians at Antioch." Acts 11:26 Mere names are empty sounds, and but of little consequence. And yet it must be owned, that there are names of honor and significance; and, when they are attended with the thin... Read More

1st Corinthians 1:18 (KJV) 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. Every facet of the Christian life emanates from the divine act of love that transpired upon the cross; a barbaric instrument of death. The savage and t... Read More

There is a further lesson to be learned from Luke 9 concerning the true function of the gifts, and it is this: although the two apostles apparently had the means and power to call down fire from heaven, they dare not attempt to do so without permission from the Lord; they said, 'Lord, wilt Thou?' In... Read More

Preached at Providence Chapel, London, on July 18th, 1847, by J. C. Philpot And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left. Isaiah 30:21 It is an infinite mercy for the church of God that the religion ... Read More