The Struggle
August 22, 2011 “Therefore, if any one be in Christ he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17) “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the...
Connected to Christ by Baptism
August 9, 2011 “Baptism” is a word that seems to simply pop up in the Bible. You are reading along through the New Testament and all of sudden . . . there it is. This strange character named John the Baptist, sporting a suit of camel’s hair and eating locusts and...
The Powerful Seed of the Gospel
July 24, 2011 In an article in Popular Science Magazine entitled “The Power of Growth in Plants,” the writer, a botanist, documented a tree growing up through a huge millstone weighing several tons. The tree actually lifted the stone and displaced it and then...
God’s Amazing Seed
July 14, 2011 I just finished helping my family put up approximately 300 ears of corn at our little farm. I remembered planting the seeds back in late April. This ritual has happened many times before, but it never fails to bring to my mind God’s faithfulness...
Fruit Comes from Life
May 15, 2011 Fruit comes from life (Genesis 1:11). That is a God-ordained fact of creation. When my children were young, they loved to venture into the woods looking for a Christmas tree. The tree had to be a special. It had to meet certain specifications – tall,...
O Magnify the Lord with Me
May 10, 2011 Paul was in jail. A minister of Jesus Christ in jail? That does not sound very comforting, but it could be our testimony today. He was there because he preached the gospel of God’s grace, a message that the masses did not want to hear. Paul realized that...
Resurrection and the Mercy Seat
April 24, 2011 Sitting with my wife at the Baptist Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, looking out the window on a beautiful sunshiny day, is not where we wanted to be this Resurrection morning. We are consciously aware because of Romans 8:28 that we are never out from...
The Doctrine of Hell
March 22, 2011 It is hard to question Rob Bell’s ability with neither words nor the apparent sincerity that motivated him to write Love Wins. He so wants Paul’s words “who would have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4) to...
The Worth of Dying with Christ
February 6, 2011 In Luke chapter four, Jesus said that man should not live by bread alone (human food) but by everyone word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (spiritual food). Every believer in Christ is to be spiritually nourished from God’s word. This spiritual...
The Value of the Cross
January 15, 2011 One of the most used words by Christians – those with a Calvinistic view, those with an Armenian view and those everywhere in between – is the Old Testament word atonement. Why not? It is a strong Bible word. Atonement is first used in Exodus. “They...
Letter to a Young Friend
August 4, 2010 Dear Brother, No view of the Bible is complete; not even your dads, and least of all mine. The Holy Spirit is the great teacher. He must make God's word jump alive to each of us within His plan. I know just enough to realize that God has His divine...
Me, A Calvinist?
August 5, 2009 I was taught clearly from my years at Dallas Theological Seminary the extreme importance of studying the Bible word by word. I believe that all scripture – every word, every line, every paragraph – is inspired by God and profitable for truth, for...