Thoughts

Faith is implicit trust in the Word of God. It is confidence in the trustworthiness of God.

There is an alarming tendency in some Christian circles to fawn over men because they are scholars, even though they are disloyal to the Person of Christ.

When a person gets grounded early in the doctrine of grace, he saves himself from a host of problems in later life.

The Bible is full of paradoxes, that is, truths that seem contrary to what we would normally suppose or truths that seem to contradict one another.

Commandments? In the New Testament? Whenever people hear the word commandments, they immediately think legalism.

The Lord Jesus had just girded Himself with a towel and filled a basin with water, preparatory to washing the disciples’ feet.

It is generally understood that Paul here borrows a figure from the victory parade of a military leader just returned from a foreign conquest. The general is at the head of the parade, savoring the sweet satisfaction of victory.

This favorite Gospel verse zeroes in on the two basic truths that are so hard for fallen man to accept—the incarnation and the resurrection. There can be no salvation without accepting these doctrines and all that they signify. 

Some of us will be eternally thankful to God for this verse because it taught us that assurance of salvation comes first and foremost through the Word of God and not through feelings.

Because we live in a period known as the age of God’s grace, it has become a popular thing to declare that the Ten Commandments are no longer valid, no longer relevant in our society.