Discipleship
Various topics relating to Christian discipleship.
Tulip Or Weeds?
Tulip Or Weeds?
by Daniel Parks
Is salvation the work of God alone? or of man cooperating with God? Is salvation bestowed by God’s grace alone? or does man merit it through an act of self-righteousness performed by his own free will?
Church history is highlighted by confrontations on this doctrine. Those who preach salvation involves man’s free will and works have ever opposed those who preach salvation by God’s grace alone. Scribes and Pharisees opposed Jesus Christ… Continue reading
The Old Cross And The New
The Old Cross And The New
by A.W. Tozer
ALL UNANNOUNCED AND MOSTLY UNDETECTED there has come in modern times a new cross into popular evangelical circles. It is like the old cross, but different: the likenesses are superficial; the differences, fundamental.
From this new cross has sprung a new philosophy of the Christian life, and from that new philosophy has come a new evangelical technique-a new type of meeting and a new kind of preaching. This new evangelism… Continue reading
The Almost Christian
The Almost Christian
by George Whitefield
“Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.”
[Acts 26:28]
Editor’s note: there are some points made in the following treatise that may lead a person to think that salvation is based on a person’s moral performance and the degree thereof. Hence, you will see some text in brackets added to clarify the original author’s message.
The chapter, out of which the text is taken, contains an admirable account which the… Continue reading
The God Nobody Knows
The God Nobody Knows
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.”
[Isaiah 55:8]
Introduction
This study discusses attributes of God that very few people know about. These attributes describe God by the events and deeds that He claims responsibility for. They are things about God that many people do not want to attribute to the “God of love” they have been taught about, because they are normally… Continue reading
A Scriptural Perspective of Tongues
A Scriptural Perspective of Tongues
Letting The Bible Speak To Us On This Issue
(Verses from the 1769 Authorized King James Version with 1833 Webster’s Update.)
1Cor. 13:8-10 “Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away. [9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. [10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is… Continue reading