I just returned home, emotionally stretched and somewhat paralyzed to any plans for a ‘normal’ day, having been deeply confronted by reality again. These are very profitable and necessary times of renewal in heart and mind. I had the blessed privilege of committing the body of […]
[I want to encourage everyone who is reading through the Bible with us this year. For those who are not aware, our reading plan is posted on our website at http://www.trinitybiblechurch.org/resources/bible-reading-plan. Each day it dynamically identifies the reading for that day and even furnishes a link […]
Our Lord gave a very sobering analysis of our commission at the end of John 15: “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you” (Jn 15:18). He urges us to expect nothing less. The axiom is uncomfortably clear: “Remember […]
Pruning The word that Jesus uses to describe what the Father does to all who are rightly united and abiding in His Son, is the word kathairō, which means to make clean by taking away an undesirable part of something. Originally the word had the idea […]
In John 15, Jesus says, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that . . . does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.” With these words He enters into the subject of divine pruning. […]