Zen Buddhism is one of the more philosophic and orientally flavored of cultism, peculiarly adapted to the Western mind in that it decidedly shuns outright supernaturalism, but encourages a “Satori” (enlightenment) experience, “an awakening of our original inseparability with the universe.” The ultimate goal of Zen Buddhism is “the freeing of the will,” so that […]

Paul asserted that Christ delivers all believers from the eternal wrath of God. This means that they may wait for the return of Christ with confident hope: For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true […]

 Only by looking to eternity past do we gain the proper perspective to fully grasp the magnitude of our salvation. Before the Creation of the world, before anything was brought into being, God already had His plan of salvation set in motion. Who would begin an enterprise as enormous as the Creation of the universe—and […]

 * You may spoil the gospel by substitution. You have only to withdraw from the eyes of the sinner the grand object which the Bible proposes to faith—Jesus Christ—and to substitute another object in His place—and the mischief is done. * You may spoil the gospel by addition. You have only to add to Christ, […]

God has not left us to fish around in the world of spirits and subjective experiences to know Him and speak to Him. God send His Son, who pre-existed as God and with God, to be born of a virgin and live in history in the flesh. The apostles heard Him, touched Him and saw […]

What is the whole papacy but a beautiful false front and a deceptively glittering holiness under which the wretched devil lies in hiding? The devil always desires to imitate God in this way. He cannot bear to observe God speaking. If he cannot prevent it or hinder God’s Word by force, he opposes it with […]

There is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology. Christianity was born for endurance; not an exotic, but a hardy plant, braced by the keen wind; not languid, nor childish, nor cowardly. It walks with a strong step and erect frame; it is […]

A new and more powerful proclamation of law is perhaps the most pressing need of the hour; men would have little difficulty with the gospel if they had only learned the lesson of the law. As it is, they are turning aside from the Christian pathway; they are turning to the village of Morality, and […]

Another symptom of postmodernism’s influence on evangelical hermeneutics is what couldbe called “middle-ground mania.” The interpretive atmosphere of today appears to impose an insatiable appetite for theologians to have the best of two worlds-to locate themselves between established positions-thereby mixing literal and nonliteral hermeneutical principles in various combinations. John Piper provides an example of this […]

Following are the godly thoughts of the great Bible commentator Matthew Henry concerning — Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth […]