John 6:65

I am guilty of declaring such a divine affirmation upon people whom I have led in receiving Christ in prayer. Well, isn't that a good thing? The problem here is that, I am not God. I do not have the ability to see through the hearts of men and gauge...…

Seeking God is what fallen sinners ought to do, and God has every right to command them to do it. But they don’t come. They disobey His commands—as is their common practice. In fact, they can’t come, because they love their sin too much. Their attachment to sin amounts to a kind of bondage that …

This post was originally published in June 2014.–ed. There is colossal confusion about what it means to be a Christian. Through mass communication the culture receives conflicting messages about what defines authentic Christianity. Cults, charismatic speakers, and criminally convicted church leaders only muddle the confusion on a grand scale. What’s perhaps worse than confusing the …

“Everyone’s a theologian.” This common expression rightly conveys that all people think thoughts and express ideas that would be considered “theological.” Rather than theology being something that only occurs in academic institutions or during formal church services, anytime someone expresses an idea about God or his relationship to the world, that would be considered theology. This is why I believe that theology is best defined as “discourse concerning God.” According to this definition, any...…

Quia isto articulo stante stat Ecclesia, ruente ruit Ecclesia. Martin Luther penned those Latin words to magnify the importance ofsola fide(the doctrine of justification by faith alone).[1]Roughly translated, Luther is saying, “If this article [of justification] stands, the church stands; if this article collapses, the church collapses.” Luther had good reason to place such weighty …

Salvation is a creative work of God, not a do-it-yourself project for sinners. Second Corinthians 5:17is an oft-quoted verse that illustrates this: “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” The point of that statement should be clear: Salvation is accomplished solely and …