(When Revelation Gives Way to Reconstruction — Post 17) One of the striking things about the New Testament is something most readers never notice. The apostles rarely retell the stories of Jesus’ earthly ministry. They do not reconstruct His timeline nor did they harmonize the Gospels. They did not attempt to arrange events chronologically. Instead,…
One of the most important questions a believer can ask is not how salvation works for the saved, but why the lost are condemned. Scripture speaks plainly to this question, yet theological systems often complicate what the Bible keeps clear. The New Testament never says men perish because they were unelected. It says they perish…
Giants in the Land: Volume 1 (War for Possession) — Post 9 of 33Part II — The Wilderness Where Sons are Proven Why Delay is Spiritual Retreat Faith Is Not Neutral OT Grounding: Numbers 13–14 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him….
There are few things more revealing than this simple question: Why does the thought of standing before Christ still fill so many believers with dread? Not unbelievers — believers. Sincere Christians who love the Lord, who desire to please Him, and who take Scripture seriously. If that describes you, this article is for you. When…
Giants in the Land: Volume 1 (War for Possession) — Post 8 of 33Part II — The Wilderness Where Sons are Proven And there we saw the giants… and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. — Numbers 13:33 The First Battlefield Is Not Canaan — It Is…
Giants in the Land: Volume 1 (War for Possession) — Post 7 of 33Part I — The Summons & the Stakes Sin as a Personal Captor (Gen. 4:6–7 • 2 Tim. 2:26 • 1 John 3:8) If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, **sin lieth at the…
Giants in the Land: Volume 1 (War for Possession) — Post 6 of 33Part I — The Summons & the Stakes When Fear Refuses Inheritance Most believers expect giants to show up in “big” crises, not daily decisions. Scripture shows the opposite. Giants appear wherever inheritance is at stake. In this first part of Giants…
Giants in the Land: Volume 1 (War for Possession) — Post 14 of 33Part II — The Wilderness Where Sons are Proven When Truth Breaks the Yoke There are moments in the Christian life when the war is long, the night is deep, and the voice of the accuser has worn grooves in the mind. No…
Giants in the Land: Volume 1 (War for Possession) — Post 5 of 33Part I — The Summons & the Stakes Conflict as Formation: War as the Means of Enlargement “Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them… to teach them war.” — Judges 3:1–2 The modern believer assumes…
Giants in the Land: Volume 1 (War for Possession) — Post 13 of 33Part II — The Wilderness Where Sons are Proven Discerning the Voice of the Spirit from the Voice of the Accuser In every believer’s life there comes a moment where the fiercest battle is not fought against the world, nor against circumstance, nor…