“Thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works” (Rev. 2:4–5). Ephesians 5 tells us that our marriage is a picture of the relationship between Christ and the Church. In both cases we can become cold and calloused toward the one that we once...
“And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me” (Genesis 37:9). A man with initiative dreams about something he can accomplish, something he can become, or some-thing he can...
“That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man . . . that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God” (Eph. 3:16, 19). “Before Pentecost the struggle was hopeless. After Pentecost they overcame. The Spirit made slaves...
“Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” (Col. 4:6) For the most part, spoken words will always say something, though there are occasionally times when spoken words really say nothing. The simple reality is that much more is said by how...
God established boundaries, even in Paradise. Adam and Eve were commanded not to partake of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This God-ordained boundary was for their protection. Disobediently eating the fruit from this tree would bring certain and immediate death. Today’s “grace teaching” has been distorted to unimaginable depths. All boundaries have...
The whole body [in Christ is] fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part. Ephesians 4:15–16 Each member of the body has a specific function: eyes see; ears hear; legs walk; noses smell; brains think. Healthy body parts carry out their...