james-3:17

Dear Saints, this principle is very important for us to walk in and to advance in our Christian walks. If we cannot be a people of great mercy who grow rich in this virtue we will never reach to the maturity of Christ and to the unity of the body of Christ. The underground Church in other countries ... Read More

A Lesson from James to the Churches Watch out when tongues get loose. They can do a lot of damage. Nothing saddens the heart more than to hear of local churches divided, broken and destroyed by the Devil. It is especially sad when good churches are needed to be winning souls for Christ. The Devil ha... Read More

Here we have the wonderful contrast between the ways and actings of man's heart towards God, and the ways and actings of God's heart towards poor guilty man. These two things must be brought close the one to the other, and be shewn as they rightly are. Men's hearts were not fully put to the test bef... Read More

VIII. Truly gracious affections differ from those affections that are false and delusive, in that they tend to, and are attended with the lamblike, dovelike spirit and temper of Jesus Christ; or in other words, they naturally beget and promote such a spirit of love, meekness, quietness, forgiveness ... 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

When He said, Occupy until I come!", there is no doubt that He had reference to that external coming which will shake the continents one of these days. But have we limited the scope of its meaning to that event, alone. Once again, the external finds its counterpart in the internal. OCCUPY UNTIL I CO... Read More

The Mystery of Life Spirit, Soul and Body Life is a mystery and we have yet to find the man or woman who at one time or another has not pondered with wonderment over the fact of the spirit and soul dwelling together in the body of man. We so often say “body, soul and spirit” but the Bible records it... Read More

Meditations on First Peter Chapter One by J. C. Philpot, 1869 Part VII. In our last paper we paused at the words, "Which things the angels desire to look into." As there is much in this expression that demands and will repay reverent and thoughtful meditation, we resume at this point our exposition ... Read More

"If ye fulfil the royal law according to the Scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well." "So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty" (James 2:8, 12). We now come to practical love as set forth in this plain, matter-of-fact manual for daily life. ... Read More

Sit down with pencil and paper, and – verse by verse – let the Word of God search your heart. It will mean recognizing, admitting, even recording your sins as they’re revealed – yours, not your neighbor’s. It will mean Spirit-guided confession and restoration. It will mean obedience at any cost – in... Read More