“If anyone wishes to follow Me, he must renounce himself and take up his cross and follow Me” (Mark 8:34). “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17). One hundred years of compromise has utterly robbed modern Christianity of the … [Read more...] about July 31
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July 30
How has the church fallen into such a state of powerless apathy and negative witness? How is it possible that those called to be members of the Body of Christ can fall away into religious Christianity? The answer, of course, is that we have entered a new … [Read more...] about July 30
July 29
The Word of God is more than just theology; to the world, it is the voice of judgement sounding out the mournful tones of the doomsday bell – “Send not to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee!” (John Donne). To the prodigal seeking to find his way … [Read more...] about July 29
July 28
“I am the way the truth and the life” (John 14:6). It is inevitable, I suppose, that fallen man will read the words of God and try and relate to them from the position of self; that is, we try and understand what they mean to us, rather than consider what … [Read more...] about July 28
July 27
“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life” (John 14:6). There is much preaching from the scriptures going out into the atmosphere; there is a whole industry of Christian literature and music; much time devoted to listening to tapes and reading tracts; much … [Read more...] about July 27
July 26
It is part of our fallen human nature that the first thing people do when they sin is to try and hide from God; this habit began in the Garden, when Adam and Eve hid from God, although their need for Him was never more acute than when they sinned. Israel, too, … [Read more...] about July 26