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In John 3, Jesus is not talking about sin and hell when answering Nicodemus' questions. He is talking to a religious leader, a clean-living, upright, good, noble man__a natural man__and it was to him that He said_“Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” For what, might we ask...

That is the question many have when trying to understand what it means to "die to self". E.S.Jones has it the way it is meant to be understood: "Some people think if you come to Christ you surrender to being cancelled out. Cancelled? All you think and act and are become heightened by the...

. . . we must understand that before man committed sin the power of the soul was completely under the dominion of the spirit.

"And I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless." 1 Thess. 5:23.

Celebration or Surrender? . . . . . Oswald Chambers We begin our Christian life by believing what we are told to believe, then we have to go on to so assimilate our beliefs that they work out in a way that redounds to the glory of God. The danger is in multiplying the acceptation of beliefs we...

I submit this as being the difference what I see between one who is saved by a sinners prayer and the new born from above; the problem within the visible church: The Patience of God in His Consummation of Our Lives - - - Geo. MacDonald* We must keep in mind when working through this that God...

That is part of a repeat warning to the churches in Rev 2 and 3. What was the problem in each case that we might ask, "Overcome" what?

The receiving God’s own life_is the starting point of all spiritual life of the born again Christian. How useless is of all our exhortation, persuasion, argument, explanation and study, purposed to induce some understanding in the mind, some determination in the will, some feeling in the emotion...

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This is an very interesting read; little long and can be rewarding to our understanding, if we allow it, into his life and a contribution to how the Christian world in general came to recognize his work[s] as being of the greatest since the Apostles: _______________________________________...

“For His Name’s sake they went forth …” . . “Witnesses unto Me … unto the uttermost part of the earth.” January 1st Let us keep to the point “My eager desire and hope being that I may never feel ashamed, but that now as ever I may do honor to Christ in my own person by fearless courage."...

This has been my persuasion for years: http://www.vergenetwork.org/2012/04/12/platt-why-accepting-jesus-in-your-heart-is-superstitious-unbiblical/

. . . . one must take care not to allow the truth of Jesus Christ be cast into the shadows of our thinking when seeking for more of it. Fragmented thinking can do that when one does not consider the whole of the instructions presented us which is that which can only take us Home to Father's...

(1) Paul starts with the eternal Father—not the Fall of man. (2) He indicates that God’s purposing was “before the foundation of the world.” (3) He emphasizes that God’s purpose is to be realized through, and is to center in the Son. Want to argue any of those 3 things? Want to argue God's...

For my serious Christian friends who may be struggling with the "new Ideas" church of today: “And every virtue we possess” "All my fresh springs shall be in Thee". Psalm 87:7 (P.B.V.). Our Lord never patches up our natural virtues, He remakes the whole man on the inside. “Put on the new...

Celebration or surrender? "We begin our Christian life by believing what we are told to believe, then we have to go on to so assimilate our beliefs that they work out in a way that redounds to the glory of God. The danger is in multiplying the acceptation of beliefs we do not make our own...

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. . . . the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin". 1 John 1:7. Probably the biggest "IF" that must be understood by the new born from above.

a prep school for becoming an heir of God; joint-heir with Jesus Christ?

And why if our idea about salvation is all about Jesus having done it all in our behalf?: “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not bear his own cross...