God Doesn’t Bless Confusion or “Cleverness”

“Deeper knowledge of the truth of God requires knowledge of earlier simpler truths without which the deeper truths will never be revealed.” – John Walvoord. He made that statement in the context of biblical end-times prophecy and the reluctance for some people to accept what the Bible declares God will bring to pass in the end-times. At this …

They Come To Meet Jesus But Meet Lazarus Instead

In recent days I’ve been giving thought to the counsel of Smith Wigglesworth, given to a class of Bible students in 1927, warning them that if they ever turned from the word of God “to some other place ” they could not believe the truth after that.  He said, “The spirit of this age is to get you to believe a …

Spiritual Paralysis

In my post: The Same Old Same Old, I say, “For the repentant water-baptised Christian a divine exchange has taken place … death for life – eternal life … God’s life – eternal in quality, eternal in quantity.  No man-centered rules, laws or obligations to adhere to, but rather, allegiance and obedience to the Lord Himself as …

Twice-A-Year Christians

I was speaking with a couple of people who told me, “we make sure we go to church twice a year … at Christmas time and Easter.”  They had a proud kind of, “waddya-think-of-that?”-type look on their faces, so I responded with, “Big deal.  It sounds to me like you believe you’re doing God a favor.”  Each gave no …

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