Volunteering: How do we understand this?

In Christianity Today, Michelle Van Loon wrote the following article: Church Volunteers: An Oxymoron – Why I’ve stopped using the word ‘volunteer’ to describe those who serve. This article expresses the same dilemma that we find in the church with many things: using...

Receiving a Blessing from God

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore...

Keeping Our Word

But to the house of the Rechabites Jeremiah said, “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Because you have obeyed the command of Jonadab your father and kept all his precepts and done all that he commanded you, 19 therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the...

Future Hope, Present Holiness

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.  Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know...