LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR A LIFETIME OF FUTURE LEARNING Over 30 years ago, I led a young lady to Christ. Several weeks later, she came back to me and said, “I need help. I don’t know anything about the Bible. I didn’t know there was an...
JUST AS OUR NATION FOLLOWED BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES TO POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE, SO WE CAN FOLLOW BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES TO SPIRITUAL INDEPENDENCE Having just celebrated the 4th of July in the U.S., it is natural for us to reflect on the issue of freedom. Our Founding Fathers knew what it...
YOU CAN IMPACT OTHERS BY PLAYING BY THE RULES FOR HOW GOD HAS CREATED US TO CHANGE Years ago when I was teaching Bible Doctrine at a Christian college, I announced the next major heading during a lecture: “The Derivation and the Perpetuation of the Immaterial...
USE RESISTANCE TO BUILD STRENGTH I am concerned that if we don’t create a better way of power-feeding our souls with biblical truth, future generations of Christians may be swept out to sea by the rip-tide of modern culture. I have made the point in earlier blogs that...
WE MUST KEEP ALL 7 MARKS OF A COMPLETE CHRISTIAN ON OUR RADAR SCREEN SIMULTANEOUSLY TO AVOID HOLES IN OUR DISCIPLESHIP MINISTRY The reason is that some of the better discipleship resources that are available today have their roots in the mid-twentieth century when there was...
THERE ARE TWO DECISIONS THAT DETERMINE WHERE WE END UP! We saw last week that we become what we behold. That is, we inevitably become what we let into our minds and what we think about. Therefore, there are two subsequent steps we must take. First, we must...