The Proper Focus

With so many evangelical voices today, it can become quite confusing in determining how God intends me to respond. We have (and deeply need) ministries that zero in on families, prayer, singles, prisons, the unsaved, discipleship, and so forth. Each one is indeed both...

The Holy Spirit Of Promise

The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is a person and is very actively involved in our lives.  In fact, we would not be Christians if it hadn’t been for the Spirit’s conviction, and we would not have a guarantee of our inheritance if it weren’t for...

Developing Faith

“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”  Both faith unto salvation and faith unto spiritual development are the product of hearing the word of God.  Of course, we readily see that this hearing is much more than audible, natural hearing. ...

Two Kinds Of Blindness

Mankind is spirit, soul and body.  That is, we’re basically physical and  spiritual in nature, and we need sight in both areas.  Our Lord Jesus is still the One who opens the eyes of the blind.  Whenever He heard the cry, “Have mercy on us,”...

Smitten, Yet Healed

Exodus 17:6  Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. Isaiah 19:22  And the LORD shall smite...