1Ki 18:17-18 When Ahab saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, “Is it you, you troubler of Israel?” (18) And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have abandoned the commandments of...
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Words of Wisdom from David Wells: Losing Our Virtue
The following is taken from the introduction to David F. Wells book Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover its Moral Vision [Eerdmans, 1998]. Wells is also the author of No Place for Truth and God in the Wasteland. I...
Continue ReadingWords of Wisdom from David Wells: Losing Our VirtueCounterfeit Repentance — by Thomas Watson, 1668
Here are some excellent truths about fake repentance. These words are from a pastor of old named Thomas Watson in England: COUNTERFEITS of Repentance (from Thomas Watson’s The Doctrine of Repentance, Puritan Paperbacks series) To discover what true repentance is,...
Continue ReadingCounterfeit Repentance — by Thomas Watson, 1668Idolatry Will Never Produce Love for Others
You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water...
Continue ReadingIdolatry Will Never Produce Love for OthersLet’s Get “Do Not Judge” Right and Stop Using it to Justify the Wicked
Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s...
Continue ReadingLet’s Get “Do Not Judge” Right and Stop Using it to Justify the WickedBe Wise About this thing called “A Call to Ministry”
1Ti 1:5-7 The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. (6) Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, (7) desiring to be...
Continue ReadingBe Wise About this thing called “A Call to Ministry”The Faith of Devils
James 2:15-19, “If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, (16) and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what...
Continue ReadingThe Faith of DevilsWho is Really on the Lord’s Side?
1Jn 2:9-10 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. (10) Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. There are many statements of...
Continue ReadingWho is Really on the Lord’s Side?Let Me Show You What a Den of Robbers (“church”) Really Looks Like – An inside view
Mat 21:12-13 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. (13) He said to them, “It...
Continue ReadingLet Me Show You What a Den of Robbers (“church”) Really Looks Like – An inside viewA Church in which Evil is Justified
Rom 6:1-2 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? (2) By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? My good friend Phoebe who grew up in...
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