What is Holiness?
Foundational to the study of holiness is to understand what it means. A secular understanding of holiness is not very helpful. Merriam-Webster mainly offers synonyms to grasp with the “quality or state of being holy.” Antonyms are also suggested to provide an idea of what holiness is not. Synonyms AntonymsAsceticism DepravityConsecration …
Lindsay Clancy and the Need for Justice: Can You Hear the Children Crying?
“But let justice roll down like watersAnd righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” ~Amos 5:24 The known facts about Lindsay Clancy, age 36, are simple and indisputable. MASSACHUSETTES LIVE – Luis Fieldman Timeline of events on Jan. 24, 2023 Before 4 p.m. Lindsay Clancy took her 5-year-old daughter, Cora, to a pediatrician appointment, interacting with a…
Take Heed to Your Ministry: 10 Suggestions for Pastors
“Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity” (1 Tim. 4:12). First, when a compliment is given after a sermon, accept the generous remark with a response of gracious appreciation. Sometimes, during a college or professional football game,…
What Is a Christian?
About AD 130, a man named Diognetus wrote to a friend to ask what it meant to be a Christian. This is the answer he received. “Christians are indistinguishable from other men either by nationality, language or customs. They do not inhabit separate cities of their own, or speak a strange dialect, or follow some…
Atheism: Denying the God Who Is There
While it is impossible to know the exact number of people who self-identify as atheists, the number seems to be growing. A commonly reported number is that 1.6 percent of Americans identify themselves as atheists. Since the US population is approximately 35o million, there could be nearly 6,000,000 atheists in America. That number grows even…
How to Enjoy the Presence of God
Our general topic is how to enjoy the presence of our Great God and King, and His Son, our Savior Jesus Christ. Many are the views which advocate the best way to enter into the Lord’s presence. That we should draw near to God is the clear command of Holy Scripture, and the natural inclination…
Polycarp—A Faithful Witness for Christ
In addition to the study of Bible history I would exhort you to read the biographies of great men and women of faith. It has been pointed out by more than one author that there is no ending to the book of Acts. We are told in Acts 28 that Paul dwelt two whole years…
The Christian’s Spiritual Warfare
One of the most distressing realizations of being a Christians is how deeply sin is entrenched in the soul. The apostle Paul reminds us, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly…
St. Augustine and the Battle With the Flesh
In the 4th century AD, there was a gifted young man whose mother was a devout Christian. His father was a pagan. The boy followed in the footsteps of his father and became a notorious libertine. A time would come when he would write his Confessions, and share the exceeding sinfulness of his life prior…
Are You a Transformed Person?
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and…
What Is the Gospel?
Ken Jones ~Ligonier Ministries The gospel is the good news that God sent His Son into the world. In His life, God’s Son met all the requirements of God’s Holy Law. In His death, Jesus has fully satisfied the demands of justice, and the wrath of God which was poured out on Him. In His…
The Answer Jesus Might Have Given
The Bible expresses the essential character God, especially in His covenant relation to Israel, and then in Christ, to the Church. Simply put, God is the eternal, “I AM.” This truth was revealed to Abraham in Ur of the Chaldees. And it was revealed to Moses at Mount Horeb, while he was tending sheep. One…
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The Collected Works of Stanford E. Murrell 