DISCIPLE

  Philippians 1:20-21  "... so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.  21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." What is the purpose of a magnifying glass? To be seen itself? Just the opposite. It is to make some object more visible. And that was exactly Paul’s expectation, not to be seen or noticed himself, but to help make the Savior more visible to men and women. Sadly, today, many Christians appear to have lost sight of this noble ambition of Paul's. They dress and behave so as to be seen and noticed and liked. They call attention to themselves, not to Christ.   "My life touched yours for a very brief space, And what, oh, what did you see? A hurried, a worried and anxious face, Or the beauty of Jesus in me? Was I steeped so deep in the ways of the world That you couldn’t detect one thing That would set me apart and show that my heart Belonged to the Heavenly King?"          ...

Saints In Storms At Sea   Jonah             Jonah went onboard a cargo ship in the Mediterranean , “to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord” (Jon. 1:3). He was at sea because of his disobedience to the clearly revealed will of God (Jon. 1:1-2). He is rightly criticized for this gross error in judgment, and yet, frankly many Christians do similar things. Knowing clearly what God’s Word says they should do, they rationalize and do the opposite. Their problem is not lack of information but excessive reasoning and a self-governing spirit, and trouble comes.             Jonah’s disobedience brought a storm from God (Jon. 1:4) that caused great distress and loss to the mariners, whose only mistake was allowing him aboard. How many times do disobedient Christians cause distress and loss to those around them? And he didn’t even pray, but slept, until they called ...

by William R. Newell "In these days of 'respectable' Christianity, with its great cathedrals, churches, denominations, colleges, seminaries, 'uplift movements,' etc., you may say, Men no longer have any temptation to be 'ashamed of the gospel.'  But lo, and behold, it is not the gospel they preach; but a man-reforming, world-mending message of fallen flesh!  Who today preaches of the wrath of God?  But Paul speaks of wrath twelve times in Romans, and says: 'If God visit not with wrath, He cannot be the Judge of the world,'  Who preaches of the awful things we are about to find true of the Gentile world in the end of this chapter?  Who preaches, that even among the moral philosophers, the 'better' classes (in the first part of Ch.2): or the 'religious' world as represented by the Jew (last part of Ch. 2); or in the whole world (3:10-20), that 'none is righteous,' ' none doeth good'?  Who preaches that the wh...

"All Truth Is God's Truth"?* So Says "Christian" Psychology Psychology pretends to be the study of the soul; in fact, it has become known as the cure of souls. But is not the "cure of souls" the domain of the Bible? God is the only One who can take care of man's spiritual problems, and in fact, He has done so. The Bible claims that God has given to the believer "all things that pertain unto life and godliness" (2 Pe. 2:3). We don't need help from Freud , et al. .      "Christian" psychology says that we do need such help, that the Bible doesn't have all the answers we need, that prayer, repentance, being filled with the Holy Spirit, and other Biblical remedies are not enough because there are psychological problems that require something more. Does it not seem a bit odd that God has apparently inspired the likes of Freud, Jung, Maslow, Rogers, et al. , with the "truths" unknown to the apostles and...