Category Archives: Faith

The state and the church that supports religion are, relatively speaking, the best things in the darkness. Until all this relative good is overthrown, God’s kingdom will not come. The absolute good is the wedding feast of the Lamb and his supper. (Rev.… View Post

What then does it mean to believe?There is much dispute about belief; but woe to us and our arguments about faith! Isn’t it something quite simple, something every child can understand? My friends, if Jesus truly lives, if he is king of kings, then you… View Post

Spiritual Transformation Series……………………………. When God as the Vine Keeper finds branches that are filled with their own independent will and contradictory purposes that impair their natural purpose, it is His task to clip, water, prune, and love those… View Post

Scripture and Prayer for the Day…………………….. Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star in… View Post

It is not uncommon to hear people say it is wrong to try to bring about prematurely any part of God’s kingdom. That is true. We human beings must not and cannot hasten into being what God will do. But by saying it is wrong to force anything, people tend… View Post

It is the same today as at the time of the apostles. It is not a question of this or that church, of this or that teaching, but only of Jesus Christ himself (John 14:6). We have to come to terms with him!” View Post

Spiritual Transformation Series……………………………. God watched over Jesus so as to develop, by His personal direction, the true fruit by which humanity would glorify God through their lives and actions. He sought nothing less than to spiritually transform… View Post

Scripture and Prayer for the Day…………………….. The people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned. Matthew 4:16, NIV Dear Father in heaven, be close to us as we seek you in the quiet… View Post

We have been given an important calling in the context of the tremendous struggle between two opposites. We are unworldly in that we deny recognition to mutual displacement and annihilation. Yet we are close to the world and to nature in that we… View Post

In the realm of our own human nature, however, there is more resistance to God’s truth than people believe. And in human society, in all the influences to which we are exposed, there lies a grave hindrance to the living power of Christ, and this hindrance… View Post