Have you ever fallen off the wagon with a particular besetting sin or weakness – for the hundredth time? Done something really stupid that you knew not to do? Felt like you were making no progress and there couldn’t possibly be any hope left […]
Category: Christianity
Abide Until The Power Falls
In John chapter 15, Jesus tells us of both the necessity and the central requirement of bearing fruit: Every branch of mine that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more […]
Setting the Captives Free
I’ve been participating in the “twittering” going on about the protests in Iran. I’ve watched the video of the innocent and defenseless girl in the street, intentionally shot by religious thugs and dying as her friends hopelessly tried to save her. A beautiful young […]
Persecution Rages in China, Elsewhere
Nothing gained by compromise Today comes a horror story out of China, in which people infiltrated a registered Chinese church in order to disrupt its Body life and to ultimately destroy the church. Finally one Christian was brutally beaten and then, with the cooperation […]
Chosen and Foreknown
“You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain. – Jn 15:16 I’ve always had problems with the concept of being chosen by God. When I came to […]
