Thoughts

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in a period known as the age of God’s grace, it has become a popular thing to declare that the Ten Commandments are no longer valid, no longer relevant in our society. 

In a world like ours, with conditions being what they are, what should a serious-minded man or woman do? 

How can you be a Christian and not be aware of the sovereignty of the God who has loved us to the death? 

In our Christian fellowship, we must recognize that the blessed Holy Spirit of God desires to take men and women and control them, and use them as instruments through which He can express Himself in the body of Christ...