The Need for Repentance Part 1

PlayStop Popout X There are few things in life more painful than broken relationships. Shattered marriages, wayward children, and disrupted friendships produce intense suffering and deep sorrow. When those broken relationships involve fellow believers, the pain is even more severe. Watching believers suffer the consequences of their sinful conduct compounds the grief from the breaking…

True Holiness in the Expression of Love

PlayStop Popout X As we strive for true holiness, we should express the genuine characteristics of true love. One commentator writes, “The most difficult, painful experience for a faithful minister is to be misrepresented, to be falsely accused, to have one’s integrity unfairly attacked…Throughout history, God’s faithful servants have endured such slanderous false accusations. But…

Be Ye Separate

PlayStop Popout X Two weeks ago we looked at the fact that rather than fight the Church, marriage, or home, the Devil would rather join them. God clearly commands the Christian to be separate from the world and its selfish worldview. However, we are not to be isolated from the world, but rather we are…

The Doctrine of Separation

PlayStop Popout X Saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ produces a radical transformation of every aspect of a Christian’s being. Christians are “new creatures,” for whom “the old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (5:17). Believers and unbelievers inhabit two opposing worlds. Christians are in Christ’s kingdom, which is characterized…