Series — Refined by Fire: Walking Through Suffering with Christ — Post 11 How God Teaches His Children Through Adversity When Our Understanding Reaches a Cliff One of the great transitions of the Christian life is the transfer of trust — from self to God. But no man abandons his own understanding while it still works for him….
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 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…
What the Sheep and the Goats Really Reveal Matthew 25:31–46 is one of those passages that seems to place works at the center of final judgment. But when read in the full counsel of Scripture, we see it’s not about earning salvation — it’s about revealing the reality of it. The sheep and the goats…
(Job 26–27 | Chapter XX of Jessie Penn-Lewis’s *The Story of Job*) “My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go…” —Job 27:6 (KJV) Main Article: After Bildad’s cold words, Job speaks again—and this time, something has changed. His voice is clearer.His tone is firmer.His spirit is rising. Job 26 — The Majesty…
(Job 19 | Chapter XIV of Jessie Penn-Lewis’s *The Story of Job*) “For I know that my redeemer liveth…” —Job 19:25 (KJV) Job is crushed—but not silent. Chapter 19 is a sacred echo through the centuries. From the ashes of grief, Job raises a cry that still shakes the soul: “I know that my redeemer…
“Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they refine it.”—Job 28:1 (KJV) There are few voices that speak to the sufferer with as much spiritual clarity and depth as Jessie Penn-Lewis. Her 1902 work, *The Story of Job: A Glimpse into the Mystery of Suffering*, is not a…
A Voice from the Ash Heap: Jessie Penn-Lewis and the Spiritual Message of JobIntroducing a Series on Suffering, Refinement, and Victory Jessie Penn-Lewis is one of the Christian writers I most treasure for her depth and spiritual discernment.I first read her book The Story of Job more than 35 years ago—and to this day, I…