About 15 years ago, my brother, then an assistant football coach at Arizona State, introduced me to Danny White, who was then the star quarterback for the Sun Devils. I was only 12 years old and in awe of White. Meeting him was one of those moments when you are aware of every movement you […]
Jesus of Nazareth had died a horrible and agonizing death at the hands of his Roman executioners. His own band of disciples, who had left everything they had to follow him, were suddenly left with nothing but memories, or so they undoubtedly thought. They could not have had the slightest inkling that the death of […]
We are indebted to Christian Focus Publications for their generous permission to reprint these two chapters from the book The Spirit of Promise by Donald Macleod. What are we to make of the claim that Holy Spirit baptism is given only to believers who fulfill certain conditions? The famous American evangelist, R. A. Torrey, devoted […]
"Luther Bible babble bubble," jeered Thomas Muntzer. If Thomas Muntzer were alive today, his church would have a dove on its front wall. Or, more likely, no ornament; he would be too busy running "signs and wonders" conferences to worry about a building. Muntzer was thankful that Luther had unshackled the Church from Papal authority. […]
There is all the difference in the world between this spiritual life and the death which preceded. However, it is only too evident that this life is often a sickly one. For it is a fact that the Christian still sins. Sometimes he sins so much that it almost looks as if the new life […]
Many of us, when we gather for worship, affirm that we "believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified." This ancient declaration, first affirmed in 325 A.D., arose in response to the heresies […]
