What makes a book worth the time to read it? There are many different measures for evaluating books. People have differing opinions. One person’s masterpiece is another person’s meaningless drivel. How do we know what makes a book great? I have a short list of characteristics that I use that helps me choose my reading …
From Clyde's excellent book, "Because We Love Him: Embracing Life of Holiness." "Some may romanticize death to self from a distance, as one would romanticize martyrdom. But there is nothing romantic about the reality of death. Yet when we love Christ, we are drawn to follow Him in death. This death is a daily, deliberate …
Jesus, in John 15, directed His true disciples in this way, "Abide in me, and I in you." He went on to add, "I am the vine and you are the branches; he who abides in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing." The abiding …
From Clyde Cranford's excellent book, "Because We Love Him - Embracing a Life of Holiness." "And, we have a commission from the Lord. We are to do what He does, go where He sends, and say what He gives us to say. When we preach, teach, or share one-on-one, the words we speak are not …
"Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of instruction about washings and laying on of hands, and about the resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. And this we will do, if God …
The Bible tells us much about the difference between our human intellect and the mind of Christ as delivered into us by the Holy Spirit Who indwells us. Paul wrote about this to the Corinthian believers in 1 Corinthians 2: "And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I …
"This is what the Lord says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the Lord. For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when prosperity comes, but will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land …
The Passover meal was the celebration of the prophetic word of God to the Hebrews as He prepared them for their deliverance from Egypt and their redemption as His chosen. In that Passover meal there were four ceremonial wine cups shared by the participants, each celebrating one of the key prophetic promises. You can read …
At the time of Jesus, there were strict guidelines that governed the people in preparation for the Passover and the Great or High Sabbath. The Passover or Seder meal was held the evening at the beginning of the Great Sabbath. Because Jesus apparently ate the meal on the eve of the Day of Preparation, it …
"Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings...." …
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