This essay, “The Rain Comes Down,” appeared in CGG Weekly on October 24, 2014. “The LORD will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand.” —Deuteronomy 28:12 The 2014 Feast of Tabernacles …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “The Peculiarities of Atonement,” on September 26, 2014. “Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.” …
This essay, “Christian Obedience,” was first published as a CGG Weekly essay on June 20, 2014. “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” —John 14:15 It is commonly thought—if not commonly taught—that obedience plays little part in New Testament Christianity. People are urged, “Believe in Jesus Christ, and you will …
This CGG Weekly essay, “Called to Follow,” was first published on Friday, June 13, 2014. “Then He said to them, ‘Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.’” —Matthew 4:19 If there is one great principle of Christian living, it is walking in Christ’s footsteps (I John 2:6). …
This essay, “The Bible’s Claims About Itself,” was first published on May 30, 2014, as a CGG Weekly essay. “Your word is truth.” —John 17:17 It is almost impossible for a Christian to have a meeting of minds with an atheist on any subject anywhere in the neighborhood of religion. As …
This essay, “How Human Nature Came to Be,” was published originally in the CGG Weekly on May 23, 2014. “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting.” —Romans 1:28 …
This piece, “Witness and Warning to the Powerful,” first appeared as a CGG Weekly essay on February 7, 2014. “. . . he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.” —Acts 9:15 The Bible contains an interesting phenomenon, one …
I wrote this essay, “No Meeting of the Minds,” for CGG Weekly on September 13, 2013. “. . . having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart . . .” —Ephesians 4:18 …
