7 Blessings of Being a Soul Winner
“Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.” (Matt. 9:38) In Scripture, seven is presented as the number of completion, or perfection. From the seven days of Creation to the seven seals of Revelation, Scripture is saturated with the number seven. With respect to that sacred number,…
12 Practical Steps to Take to Avoid Doing Wrong
Christian living encompasses an enormous number of issues and is not always easy. Francis Schaeffer once famously asked (and answered) the defining issue for believers in every age: “How shall we then live?” To properly answer that question about Christian living, it involves understanding our desperate condition apart from God, what He did for us…
12 Ways to Touch the Heart of God
When we speak of the heart of God, we are talking about the essence of His divine character, embodying unconditional love, holiness, and a desire on His part to connect with us, His created beings. It is characterized by grace, compassion, and a redeeming nature that offers rest to the weary and hope for the…
A Nation of Liars
Nachman Blumental was born in 1902 in Borszczów Galicia, Austria-Hungary (today Borshchiv, Ukraine). He died November 8, 1983 in Tel Aviv. As a gifted scholar, Blumental studied Polish language and literature, history, and education at the University of Warsaw. He received his first degree of philosophy in 1928, and from then on he worked as…
Charles Spurgeon and the Gift of Faith
In Scripture, faith is not defined as much as it is modeled. Hebrews 11 has been called faith’s “Hall of Fame” as it enumerates what individuals did—by faith. However, if a biblical definition is still needed, attention is turned to Hebrews 11:1. There we read, “Now faith is the substance [hupostasis, confidence] of things hoped…
The Battle with the Devil
The Reality of the Devil Because Martin Luther struggled so hard to find the way of salvation, his sensitive soul became keenly aware of the Devil. To Luther, Satan was a real person. He was not a power. He was not a “boogie man” created to scare people straight and to do good. The Devil…
Why I Love the Puritans . . . and You Should Too
I am a great admirer of those men and women known to Church history as the Puritans. In the 16th, 17th, and 18th century, God raised up some of the purest people in Christendom. Those men and women were deeply concerned about their soul, their relationship with God, and the world to come. In many respects…
Two Important Questions Asked and Answered
Question #1: “Where did God come from?” The basis for this question is rooted in spiritual ignorance, and sometimes godless unbelief. “Have you not known?Have you not heard?The everlasting God, the Lord,The Creator of the ends of the earth,Neither faints nor is weary.His understanding is unsearchable.” (Isa. 40:28) The Bible answers the question of the…
Lessons from the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Modern Church Growth Movement
In American history, the years known as the Roaring Twenties, were intoxicating. The Great War was over, and the world began looking for a good time. Ease and luxury were possible in large part because an economic belief was embraced by millions that investing in the stock market insured perpetual dividends. Stock prices began to…
5 Reasons Why a Roman Catholic Should become a Protestant
Notre Dame recently appointed pro-abortion professor Susan Ostermann to lead its Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. For conservative Catholics this should be alarming, but not surprising. Despite euphemistic words conveying a public stance about upholding the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death, appointments like this are made thereby negating official…
The Baptist Confession of Faith (1689)
Doctrinal statements are not written in a vacuum but within a historical context. The London Baptist Confession of 1689 is no exception. The creation of the 1689 Confession is united to early English Baptist history where a distinction was made between the “General” and “Particular” Baptist. The General Baptists emphasized a view of the atonement…
5 Ways to Recognize the Influence of the Devil
The Puritan clergyman and New England author Cotton Mather (1663–1728) reminds us “there is a devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil.” If a key to spiritual victory is to tell the Devil to stop lying to the soul, and then to tell oneself to…
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The Collected Works of Stanford E. Murrell 