From Within

“Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them? For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their…

True Healing

Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed;    save me and I will be saved,    for you are the one I praise. Jeremiah 17:14 The only hurts that last are spiritual ones;…

Hunger

Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the…

Knowing

Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God,…

Time’s Up

Peter is concerned with our perspective; do we seek pleasure in the flesh, to our destruction, or do we endure hardship in the flesh, to our eternal satisfaction?…

Who is the Temple for?

The worshippers, certainly. God has no need for a house himself, rather, the Temple is a house of praise, a monument for believers, a physical reminder of a…

Unsearchable

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord,    or who…

Pollution

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted…

Struggling with Scripture

And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, as he does in all his letters…

The Power of the Spirit

God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth. John 4:24 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The…