We come to a section in our reading that makes me a little apprehensive, where our author uses the phrase “eternal security."  Again, he speaks from a certain evangelical frame of…

I RECALL reading one of my favorite periodicals, finishing one article and turning the page to the next and finding this title jumping out at me: There is Forgiveness, subtitled, But there…

WE love short cuts.  We are not a patient people.  When we pray for things like patience; but we want it now.  That’s why patience –long suffering- is part of the Fruit of…

IN the last consideration the necessity of “Abiding in Christ” was referenced and center staged in concluding the chapter on Reconciliation and Acceptance.  The metaphor was used of the branch severed and…

One of the foremost benefits of resting in our position of acceptance is the deep and undying assurance that God is for us. “For I know the thoughts that I…

“ABIDE in Me, and I in you.  As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye, abide in me.” (John…