This essay, “Christian Obedience,” was first published as a CGG Weekly essay on June 20, 2014. “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” —John 14:15 It is commonly thought—if not commonly taught—that obedience plays little part in New Testament Christianity. People are urged, “Believe in Jesus Christ, and you will …
I wrote this essay, “Repentance: The Genuine Article (Part Six),” for CGG Weekly on April 8, 2011. “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” —Matthew 3:2 John the Baptist is the first of God’s messengers to address repentance in the New Testament: In those days John the Baptist came preaching …
This essay, “Repentance: The Genuine Article (Part Five),” appeared in CGG Weekly on April 1, 2011. “Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” —Job 42:6 We can learn a great deal from the sore trial of Job, particularly what God did to bring him to the point of repentance. Notice Job 40:1-4, …
I wrote this essay, “Repentance: The Genuine Article (Part Four),” for CGG Weekly on March 25, 2011. “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” —II Peter 3:9 We would …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “Repentance: The Genuine Article (Part Three),” on March 18, 2011. Say to them: “As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil …
I wrote this essay, “Repentance: The Genuine Article (Part Two),” for CGG Weekly on March 11, 2011. “For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.” —II Corinthians 7:10 While people can make positive changes in their lives, true repentance—the kind …
This essay, “Repentance: The Genuine Article (Part One),” first appeared in CGG Weekly on March 4, 2011. “He who says, ‘I know Him,’ and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” —I John 2:4 In most American presidential campaigns, candidates for that …
This essay first appeared as “The Word of the Hour” in the CGG Weekly on January 18, 2008. “My son, fear the LORD and the king; do not associate with those given to change; for their calamity will rise suddenly, and who knows the ruin those two can bring?” —Proverbs …
