From the outset of the book of Psalms, there is a clear distinction between the righteous and the wicked. Psalm 1 declares that it is like the difference between a deep-rooted, healthy tree and chaff which can easily be blown about by the…
Psalm 101 describes how genuine righteous leadership is possible. Just as Paul would state about a thousand years after David (in Acts 20:28), righteous leadership requires two basic things: Send article as PDF
One of the reasons for Jesus’ incarnation was to bring abundant life (John 10:10). To do this, humanity had to be reconciled to God so that there could be peace—the full satisfaction of God’s wrath toward humanity’s transgressions and lawlessness and the cessation…
The suffering and agony of Christ while suspended between heaven and earth at Calvary is unfathomable. It simply is beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend. Send article as PDF
“For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known. Therefore, whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inner rooms will…
“The lives of the Royal family are governed by a rigid set of rules from which there can be no deviation. Nothing is left to chance in these matters, for there is at Buckingham Palace a private handbook in which is set down…
Being righteous is costly. Send article as PDF
Persecution winnows. Send article as PDF
Unlike any other religion, Christianity was founded by the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6) who gave the gospel of peace (Romans 10:15). And, when a disciple of Jesus has the right view of God, self, and sin, the right use of his will,…
The Sermon on the Mount’s beatitudes do far more than portray the essential characteristics of a righteous person. The promises they contain are most extraordinary—“theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (vv. 3, 10); “they shall be comforted” (v. 4); “they shall inherit the…
