“Speak…all the words of this life.” I wonder what they spoke in their effort to meet the mandate. We know they didn’t cease “to teach and preach Jesus Christ.” But what were all those “words of this life”? Whatever they were, they immensely displeased the Jewish leaders, who resorted to threats, prison, and beatings. The apostles, having been told by an angel to speak, humbly replied, “We ought to obey God rather than men.”
Suffering for Christ’s Sake
How to Get Better Self-Control
We don’t need better self-control and improved self-discipline. Our own efforts at cleaning up our lives will fail. We need God’s purifying and refining. Better self-control and improved self-discipline will result from God’s cleansing work in our lives, but those two wonderful character traits will not produce effective cleansing in God’s eyes.
God Deals With Sinner and Saint
For Hopelessness and Fear, What?
Hopelessness and fear already abound on every side. What can we offer those snared by these awful predators? Read it all
Responding to All People With Grace and Integrity
God calls on me (and therefore, empowers me) to respond to the Jacobs, the Josephs and the brothers in my life on the basis of His grace and integrity…not according to how they are and how they treat me. Read it all
Great Commission: Carry Forward What Jesus Began
Jesus began the teaching which He expects the church to carry forward. Read it all