March 13, 2010 12:20 am Eastern By Bob Unruh World Net Daily The city of Gilbert, Arizona, has ordered a group of seven adults to stop gathering for Bible studies in a private home because such meetings are forbidden by the city’s zoning codes. The issue was brought to a head when city officials wrote …
“If God has called you to be really like Jesus in your spirit, He will draw you into a life of cruxifixion and humility, and put on you such demands of obedience that He will not allow you to follow other Christians; and in many ways He will seem to let other good people do …
The Narrow Gate by John Bunyan (1628-1688) “Strive to enter in at the narrow gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.” — Luke 13:24. These are the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and are, therefore, especially to be heeded; The subject matter of the …
Following previous Why God Saves focusing on God’s glory: Everything exists for the purpose of glorifying God. The Westminster Shorter Catechism of the seventeenth century begins by stating that the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. Psalm 19:1 says, “The heavens declare the glory of God.” The vastness of …
More than a decade ago, John MacArthur called modern churches to return to sound doctrine — we need to hear that call again. Christians historically have understood that their calling is to be in the world but not of the world. As Os Guinness pointed out in a perceptive series of articles on the church-growth …
I have known, in my short time, certain churches, in the paroxysms of delirium, meeting houses crowded, aisles filled, preachers stamping and thundering, hearers intoxicated with excitement, and persons converted by wholesale—even children converted by hundreds—they said thousands. Well, and a month or two after, where were the congregations? where were the converts? Echo has …