Click here if you missed Characters on the Road to the Cross, Pt 1
Yesterday was the 1 year anniversary of my moms death and the 16 year anniversary of my dad’s death… they both died on March 29th. My mom wrote a poem shortly after my dad’s death. What was so amazing about this poem written in memory of my dad… was the complete transformation God did upon his life. My dad was a walking dead man in his sin (Ephesians 2:1-4) and now full of cancer……
Today is the author William Newell (1868-1956) born in Savannah, Ohio. Newell was an evangelist, Bible teacher and served for a time as assistant superintendent of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. One day while Newell was on his way to teach a class, he thought about what Christ had done for him on the cross. The words to “At Calvary” came to him and he quickly entered an empty classroom and penned them…
The apostle Paul perfectly expresses the most earnest desire of every true follower of Christ: “That I may know him” (Phil. 3:10). “Knowing Christ,” in the Pauline sense is not the sort of mystical relationship many people imagine. Paul wasn’t longing for some secret knowledge of Christ beyond what is revealed in Scripture. He wasn’t asking that private messages from Christ be whispered into his ear. In fact, the knowledge of Christ Paul sought…
To ‘preach the cross’ . . . is to preach salvation by God’s grace alone. Such a message is a stumbling-block (1 Corinthians 1:23) because it is grievously offensive to human pride; it therefore exposes us to persecution. There are, of course, no Judaizers in the world today, preaching the necessity of circumcision. But there are plenty of false teachers, inside as well as outside the church, who preach the false gospel (which is…
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