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In every Christian’s heart there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among gospel believers today. We want to be saved … Continue reading “CROSS:
DEMANDS OF; DISCIPLESHIP; WORLDLINESS; BACKSLIDING”

At the heart of the Christian system lies the cross of Christ with its divine paradox. The power of Christianity appears in its antipathy toward, never in its agreement with, the ways of fallen men. The truth of the cross is revealed in its contradictions. The witness of the church is most effective when she … Continue reading “CROSS:
FOOLISHNESS OF”

The human mind requires an answer to the question concerning the origin and nature of things. The world as we find it must be accounted for in some way. Philosophers and scientists have sought to account for it, the one by speculation, the other by observation, and in their labors they have come upon many … Continue reading “CREATION;
SCIENCE; ATHEISM; ORIGINS”

God made the world; it is a beautiful thing and something to venerate. It’s a great loss—a tragic loss—that we’ve suffered in the last generation. We have lost the ability to wonder. We know so everlasting much and we’re so sure of ourselves. But David stood and wondered in the presence of God’s creation; he … Continue reading “CREATION;
WONDER”

Our intellectual activities in the order of their importance may be graded this way: first, cogitation; second, observation; third, reading. I wish I could include conversation in this short list. One would naturally suppose that verbal intercourse with congenial friends should be one of the most profitable of all mental activities; and it may have … Continue reading “CONVERSATION;
INTELLECTUAL STIMULATION”

The converted man is both reformed and regenerated. And unless the sinner is willing to reform his way of living he will never know the inward experience of regeneration. This is the vital truth which has gotten lost under the leaves in popular evangelical theology. The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has … Continue reading “CONVERSION;
REGENERATION; SALVATION: TRANSFORMATION”

Our shortcoming in spiritual experience is our tendency to believe without confirmation. God Himself does not need to confirm anything within His being. But we are not God. We are humans, and in matters of our faith we need confirmation within ourselves. Why are so many Christian believers ineffective, anemic, disappointed, discouraged? I think the … Continue reading “CONFIRMATION:
NEED FOR; BIBLE: VALUE OF; GOD: HIS PRESENCE”

But when a conscience has become seared, when a man has played with the fire and burned his conscience and calloused it until he can handle the hot iron of sin without shrinking, there is no longer any safety for him. Titus wrote in his epistle about those to whom nothing is pure any longer, … Continue reading “CONSCIENCE;
TONGUE; PROFANITY”

It is in the realm of religion that contempt finds its most fruitful soil and flourishes most luxuriantly. It is seen in the cold disdain with which the respectable church woman regards the worldly sister and in the scorn heaped upon the fallen woman by the legally married wife. The sober deacon may find it … Continue reading “CONTEMPT;
PRIDE: SPIRITUAL”

A right conception of God is basic not only to systematic theology but to practical Christian living as well. It is to worship what the foundation is to the temple; where it is inadequate or out of plumb the whole structure must sooner or later collapse. I believe there is scarcely an error in doctrine … Continue reading “CONCEPT
OF GOD; CURRENT CONDITIONS: SHALLOWNESS”