How Shall Man Be Right With God?
The Bible declares that all believers are Christ’s ambassadors, called to share the good news about Jesus with the world (2 Corinthians 5:20). Since Christ ascended back to His Father some 2,000 years ago about 66 generations of believers have assumed this responsibility to keep the flame of faith alive. For this post I thought we might be encouraged by peering into the life of one such ambassador from the mid 1800’s, Horatius Bonar, who was a Scottish pastor and hymnwriter . . .
Israel: Past, Present, and Future
For the first time in our 46 year marriage my wife and I are reading the Bible over the course of a year. We finished the New Testament and the Wisdom books in March and then starting in Genesis are reading the remaining Old Testament books consecutively . . .
The Imitation of Christ
About 600 years ago, Thomas à Kempis, an Augustinian monk, wrote four booklets that became collectively known as The Imitation of Christ. This short book greatly influenced future Christian writers such as Martin Luther, Samuel Johnson, and George Eliot. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, believed it contained the best summary of the Christian life he had ever read. . . .