Health And Wealth Gospel

Scripture “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me.” ~Mark 8:34, CSB Quote This false gospel {Health and Wealth} is cruel. It doesn’t intend to be but it is: it means to magnify grace but it does the opposite. ~J.I.…

Gospel Holiness

Scripture For He {God the Father} chose us in Him {Christ}, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in love before him. ~Ephesians 1:4, CSB Quote As children of God, we acknowledge the Father’s authority as a rule for our lives because we know this is what pleases Him. ~J.I. Packer…

The Glory Of Our Christian Hope

Scripture To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. ~Colossians 1:27, NLT Quote Christianity is a religion of hope; a faith that always looks forward. To the believer, the best is yet to be. ~J.I. Packer…

Knowing God Part II

Scripture I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. ~John 15:15, NLT Quote Being a servant can be a matter of shame or pride; it depends on who you are serving. ~J.I. Packer {Knowing…

The Fever

Scripture Thus says Yahweh, “Let not a wise man boast in his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast in his might; let not a rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me. ~Jeremiah 9:23-24, LSB Quote What higher, more exalted, and more…

God’s Sovereignty

Scripture This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says: “Only in returning to Me and resting in Me will you be saved.” Isaiah 30:15, NLT Quote In the Bible, divine sovereignty and human responsibility are not enemies. They are friends, and they work together. ~J.I. Packer We all believe in God’s sovereignty, the problem…

The Greatest Mystery

Scripture The Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father’s uniquely existing Son, who is full of grace and truth. ~John 1:14, ISV Quote The greatest mystery is not the atonement or the resurrection; it is the incarnation. ~J. I. Packer {Knowing…

The Work Of The Holy Spirit

Scripture “But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness about Me. ~John 15:26, ESV Quote It is an extraordinary thing that those who profess to care so much about Christ should know and care so little…

The Wrath Of God

Scripture  He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” ~John 3:36, NASB Quote “I do not want to believe [in hell], but I dare not disbelieve it.” ~J.I. Packer I’m about half-way through J.I.…

Intimacy and Knowledge

Scripture God, see what is in my heart. Know what is there. Put me to the test. Know what I’m thinking.  See if there’s anything in my life you don’t like. Help me live in the way that is always right. ~Psalms 139:23-24, NIRV Quote There is a difference between knowing God and knowing about…