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Have You Fallen from Grace? “Grace is neither withheld nor reduced because of sin.” I have been asked many times if a born again believer can fall from the grace of God since Galatians 5:4 says, “you have fallen from grace.” The context of that statement is Jewish teachers who emphasized that...

Get in the Boat with Jesus The vital thing in discipleship is to actually follow Jesus Christ wherever He goes. Have I left the lesser loyalties to follow the higher priorities of the Kingdom of God? It is not enough to be impressed with His person, or what we can get from Him. Perhaps some...

Backsliding Message by Wil Pounds Backsliding Have you ever temporarily lapsed into unbelief and sin after you became a Christian? The condition of backsliding results from spiritual apathy or disregard for the truth of God’s Word. It results in a departure from a winsome confession of faith...

Groan, Groans, and Groaning Life is full of pain, suffering and death. Each of us has our share of heartaches and hurts. Sometimes we groan under the load of suffering. In my daily ministry I see hundreds of poor people facing pain, poverty and suffering in Latin America. The word for groaning...

God’s Greatest Gift God has provided salvation for you in Jesus Christ. In simple, lucid language Jesus sums up the entire Gospel for Nicodemus and us in one beautiful sentence rich in content. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should...

From Despair to Hope It is almost uncanny how the poet describes the abandonment of the sufferer by God to the scorn of evil people who mocked Him. The Hebrew poet-king wrote, But I am a worm and not a man, A reproach of men and despised by the people. All who see me sneer at me; They...

God Is An Eyewitness The final words of Jesus just before He ascended into heaven are a constant encouragement in my ministry and should be for every Christian. “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the...

God Knows Me God knows me, and He still wants to pursue a personal relationship with me. That is truly amazing. He knows everything about me, and still wants to enjoy my fellowship with Him. What does it mean to know God? How do you come to an intimate personal knowledge of Him? I am not...

The Old Testament is full of sacrifices in which an innocent animal was killed. These were substitutionary sacrifices meaning that the death of the animal was in the place of someone else. Why was there such an emphasis in the Jewish writings? The holiness of God reveals that everyone who has...

The Model Prayer: Forgive Our Debts Why is it so hard to forgive? Only a person committed to Christ dare pray this prayer. "Forgive us our debts, as we ourselves have forgiven our debtors" (Matthew 6:12 NET). These are the most frightening words in Christianity. This part of the prayer...

The Model Prayer: Deliver Us from Evil The last petition in the Model Prayer looks to the future when we pray, “And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil” (Matthew 6:13). That is a prayer that every believer should pray daily because we are all vulnerable to succumb to...

Satisfied Faith Faith is simply taking God at His word and then acting on it. Jesus said, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29b). These words are for you and me because we have not seen Him in the days of His incarnation. Jesus is not suggesting faith...

Evidences of the Death of Christ The eyewitness John keenly observed two unusual things that happen at the crucifixion of Jesus. These facts made a deep impression on him as he watched the crucifixion taking place. The crucifixion took place on the day of preparation for the Passover festival...

Infinite Love of God The Lord God has chosen to fully reveal Himself through His Son, Jesus Christ. He has done it in such a way that a finite mind might grasp the essential truth of God’s infinite being (Rom. 1:19-20). “No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the...

Are You in Adam or in Christ? Charles Hodge asked a crucial question: “If God requires one thing, and we present another, how can we be saved? If He has revealed a method in which He can be just and yet justify the sinner, and if we reject that method and insist upon pursuing a different way...

The Purpose of Miracles The more you know about Jesus and the longer you live with Him the more you know that no human category can contain Him. He is God with us. Jesus said, “The very work that the Father has given Me to finish and which I am doing testifies that the Father has sent Me”...

Satisfied Faith Faith is simply taking God at His word and then acting on it. Jesus said, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29b). These words are for you and me because we have not seen Him in the days of His incarnation. Jesus is not suggesting faith...

Saved by His Life We shall be saved by His life” (Rom. 5:10). These words give us encouragement for difficult days when tempted by forces beyond ourselves, but let’s be clear as to what these words of the apostle Paul do not mean. “Saved by His life” does not imply that salvation comes from...

The Forsaken and the Forgiven The poignant, opening sentence in Psalm 22 reveals the disturbing fact of God’s servant crying out in God forsakenness. How could one of the members of the Godhead turn His back on another member of the Trinity? “God forsaken of God” was the price of our...

The Song of Two Jail Birds “Around midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them” (Acts 16:25). It was a prayer and praise service going on in a Roman prison! The other prisoners were attentively listening to every word. The...