Author: Administrador

I have not said that religion without power makes no changes in a man’s life, only that it makes no fundamental difference.… The changes are in form only, they are not in kind. Behind the activities of the non-religious man and the man who has received the gospel without power lie the very same motives. … Continue reading “RELIGION:
EMPTESS OF; HYPOCRISY”

“Things have come to a pretty pass,” said a famous Englishman testily, “when religion is permitted to interfere with our private lives.” To which we may reply that things have come to a worse pass when an intelligent man living in a Protestant country could make such a remark. Had this man never read the … Continue reading “RELIGION:
IN LIFE”

The comfortable drone of the Gloria Patri or the Lord’s Prayer repeated in unison has a marvelously tranquilizing effect upon such a man. He may sleep through the sermon, or if he remains alert enough to hear it he will never apply it to his own life in a practical way; yet the sonorous sound … Continue reading “RELIGION:
IN LIFE; CHURCH: RELIGIOUS GAME”

The reason many do not want to hear what God is saying through Jesus to our generation is not hard to guess. God’s message in Jesus is a moral pronouncement. It brings to light such elements as faith and conscience and conduct, obedience and loyalty. Men and women reject this message for the same reason … Continue reading “REJECTION;
UNSAVED”

Israel did not reject the Lord because of philosophical reasons. Israel’s rejection was for moral reasons.… I’m telling you this, and it’s a statement that I need not modify. I do not believe there is anybody that ever rejects Jesus Christ on philosophical grounds. The man who continues in his rejection of Christ has a … Continue reading “REJECTION;
UNSAVED; APOLOGETICS”

Oh, it is amazing how many things religious people want to do to you. They can start when you are eight days old with circumcision and end up with the last rites when you are 108 years old—and all of that time they will be rubbing something on you, or putting something around your neck, … Continue reading “RELIGION:
EMPTESS OF”

We urgently need a new kind of reformation throughout our Christian churches—a reformation that will cause us not only to accept the will of God but to actively seek it and adore it!… The reformation we need now can best be described in terms of spiritual perfection—which reduced to its simplest form is no more … Continue reading “REFORMATION;
REVIVAL: CONDITIONS FOR; OBEDIENCE: NEED FOR”

Regret is a kind of frustrated repentance that has not been quite consummated. Once the soul has turned from all sin and committed itself wholly to God there is no longer any legitimate place for regret. When moral innocence has been restored by the forgiving love of God the guilt may be remembered, but the … Continue reading “REGRET;
SELF-LOVE; FORGIVENESS”

Many a congregation has been renewed and blessed when believers have been willing to reopen the Bible wells of reconciliation and confession. When Christians are harboring hard feelings against each other, they need to be reconciled. They need to confess and ask forgiveness. I refer here to actual sins and faults. There are people in … Continue reading “RECONCILIATION;
CHURCH: UNITY”

So remember, redemption does a lot of things for us. You and I are inclined to take the kindergarten attitude toward salvation—we think its purpose is to make us happy. That attitude is abroad everywhere; people are writing books about how to be happy—just take Jesus and you’ll feel good inside. But the whole purpose … Continue reading “REDEMPTION;
HAPPINESS”