“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” —John 14:15 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love.” —John 15:9-10 The key to sanctification is loving Christ. […]
Does the world congratulate the church for congratulating the world? Not at all! The world knows that this is not true. So you have people like Jean Paul Sartre and other existentialists leaping to their feet to say, “If the church is not going to tell […]
Though the cross of Christ has been beautified by the poet and the artist, the avid seeker after God is likely to find it the same savage implement of destruction it was in the days of old. The way of the cross is still the pain-wracked […]
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:5) As branches, our purpose is to glorify our Vine. We exist to (1) […]
The chief necessity of the Christian is to abide in Christ. It is our one vital obsession. Everything else in the Christian life is of secondary consequence. The whole of John 15 is designed to glorify the true Vine. Not ‘a’ vine, or even ‘the’ vine, […]