epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:John Calvin [Calvin, John]

There was also another reason: we know how grievously faith is tried, when the good and wicked are indiscriminately and without any difference chastised by God’s hand; for the godly ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-16 | Author:Andreas J. Köstenberger

epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:John Calvin [Calvin, John]

10. And having called the multitudes to him, he said to them, Hear and understand. 11. What entereth into the mouth polluteth not the man, but what goes out of ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Scot McKnight

Resisting the evil one was an important theme in Judaism and early Christian catechesis.323 The constant presence of demons and unclean spirits in the life of Jesus (e.g, Mark 1:21-28), ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Gordon D. Fee [Fee, Gordon D.]

As with the preceding paragraph, this one needs to be heard well by those on both sides of the “tongues issue.” Those who tend to discount it as meaningful because ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:John Calvin [Calvin, John]

Nor is there any absurdity in saying that they prayed to God, with confidence in the Mediator, according to the injunction of the Law, and yet did not clearly and ...

epub |eng | 2010-12-21 | Author:Gary M. Burge & Lynn H. Cohick & Gene L. Green [Burge, Gary M.]

But God had other plans for Saul. We cannot understand Paul’s theology apart from his encounter with the risen Christ on the road to Damascus where, by his own account, ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:John Calvin [Calvin, John]

18. Go into the city to such a man. Matthew specifies a certain man; the other two Evangelists relate that the disciples were sent as to an unknown individual, because ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:John Calvin [Calvin, John]

And this is proved by what he subjoins, knowing that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Joyfully then did they endure the plundering of their goods, ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:John Calvin [Calvin, John]

20. It is I: be not terrified. We learn from them that it is in Christ’s presence alone that we have abundant grounds of confidence, so as to be calm ...

mobi |eng | 2005-09-30 | Author:John MacArthur [MacArthur, John]

WHAT ARE THE ISSUES IN SHEPHERDING? Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also of the ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:St. John Chrysostom [Chrysostom, St. John]

2. This then being the first refutation, the next after it is that which relates to the disciples. For not always in one way only, but also in a second ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:St. John Chrysostom [Chrysostom, St. John]

Homily XLVI. John vi. 41, 42.—“The Jews then murmured at Him, because He said, I am the Bread which came down from heaven; and they said, Is not this Jesus, ...

epub |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:John Calvin [Calvin, John]

MATTHEW 5:1-12; LUKE 6:20-26 1. And when Jesus had seen the multitudes, f343 he went up into a mountain, and when he had sat down, his disciples approached to him. ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-30 | Author:Charles R. Swindoll

Person and Passage: Gideon (Judg. 6–8) Weaknesses or Tragedies: What God Accomplished: Your Weaknesses and Tragedies: Person and Passage: Samson (Judg. 13–16) Weaknesses or Tragedies: What God Accomplished: Your Weaknesses ...