By whose definition?
Every day as we determine the daily, practical walk of our faith, we rely on what we see. But there is a crucial problem here: what we see is often based on how we...
Receiving God’s love
People have many ideas about what love is: being kind to someone, a romantic feeling, a physical relationship, or even having a legal marriage certificate. But all these understandings fall far short of truly...
God’s infinite love personified
Justification isn’t a term to understand, but the organic result of God’s love reaching man. In Romans 4, Paul tells us that Abraham was justified not from his works but by faith in God....
The fullness of love
The entire first eight chapters of the book of Romans have one aim: to bring us to the new creation. Paul ushers believers from objective knowledge of salvation into a subjective and intimate experience...
The freedom of faith
You can read in Romans 7 Paul’s struggle with the flesh, his desperation to come out of its weakness, and the condemnation of the law. The struggles of this bound, “wretched man” (7:24) are...
Be a ministry-carrier, a light-bearer!
The New Testament ministry today needs ministers. There is light contained in God’s words, but what carries that light through time and space, spanning thousands of years and an entire globe? Why are these...
Eating and drinking determines our oneness in the church
When believers come together in the church, our life is all about eating and drinking. From the time that the Lord charged His disciples to eat and drink “in remembrance” of Him, this specific...
Approaching the table in freedom
A human life should be sunny, bright, and free. We were created to eat (or take in) and live on the newness of life, never growing old, pursuing simple dreams. But we may “learn”...
Speaking Christ unto maturity
Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed; and no one can say, Jesus is Lord! except in the Holy Spirit. (1 Cor....