Author: Administrador

We must meet the present emergency with a spirit of optimism. This is no time for repining, no time for looking backward, no time for self-pity or defeated complaining. We are on the winning side and we cannot lose. “Surely I am with you always” (Matthew 28:20) makes ultimate defeat impossible. Surely the days are … Continue reading “CURRENT
CONDITIONS: EVIL DAYS; PROPHECY; ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE”

Suppose some angelic being who had since creation known the deep, still rapture of dwelling in the divine Presence would appear on earth and live awhile among us Christians. Don’t you imagine he might be astonished at what he saw? He might, for instance, wonder how we can be contented with our poor, commonplace level … Continue reading “CURRENT
CONDITIONS: SHALLOWNESS”

… God will crucify without pity those whom He desires to raise without measure!… God wants to crucify us from head to foot—making our own powers ridiculous and useless—in the desire to raise us without measure for His glory and for our eternal good. Romans 8:10–11; Galatians 2:20; Philippians 2:5–11 I Talk Back to the … Continue reading “CROSS:
PERSONAL; TRIALS: NECESSITY OF”

The radical message of the cross transformed Saul of Tarsus and changed him from a persecutor of Christians to a tender believer and an apostle of the faith. Its power changed bad men into good ones. It shook off the long bondage of paganism and altered completely the whole moral and mental outlook of the … Continue reading “CROSS:
POWER OF; CROSS: CURRENT VIEW OF”

We wonder how it is that a person who has been brought up in the Word of truth suddenly can turn away from it into some false religion. You may say, “He or she became confused.” No. False doctrine can have no power upon a good conscience. But when a conscience has been seared, when … Continue reading “CULTS;
CONSCIENCE; SIN: SEARED CONSCIENCE”

In our modern gospel churches, Christians have decided where to put the cross. They have made the cross objective instead of subjective. They have made the cross external instead of internal. They have made it institutional instead of experiential. Now, the terrible thing is that they are so wrong because they are half right. They … Continue reading “CROSS:
PERSONAL”

The believer’s own cross is one he has assumed voluntarily. Therein lies the difference between his cross and the cross on which Roman convicts died. They went to the cross against their will; he, because he chooses to do so. No Roman officer ever pointed to a cross and said, “If any man will, let … Continue reading “CROSS:
PERSONAL; DISCIPLESHIP”

When we are willing to consider the active will of God for our lives, we come immediately to a personal knowledge of the cross, because the will of God is the place of blessed, painful, fruitful trouble! The Apostle Paul knew about that. He called it “the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings.” It is my conviction … Continue reading “CROSS:
PERSONAL; JESUS CHRIST: INTIMACY WITH; TRIALS: NECESSITY OF”

The cross would not be a cross to us if it destroyed in us only the unreal and the artificial. It is when it goes on to slay the best in us that its cruel sharpness is felt. If it slew only our sins it might be bearable, even kind, as the knife of the … Continue reading “CROSS:
PERSONAL; PERSECUTION; TRIALS: DIFFICULTY OF”

But if I see aright, the cross of popular evangelicalism is not the cross of the New Testament. It is, rather, a new bright ornament upon the bosom of a self-assured and carnal Christianity whose hands are indeed the hands of Abel, but whose voice is the voice of Cain. The old cross slew men; … Continue reading “CROSS:
CURRENT VIEW OF; CHURCH: CURRENT CONDITION”