Sola Fide

Sola Fide

“For by grace are you saved, through faith.” Ephesians 2:8 While Sola Scriptura (Scripture alone) was arguably the most important of the Solas of the Reformation, Sola Fide (Latin for ‘by faith alone’) is a close second. While the Catholic Church taught human beings...
Sola Scriptura

Sola Scriptura

“All Scripture is God-breathed” (II Timothy 3:16). The end of this month marks the five hundredth year since the Reformation began when a German monk nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenburg Church. That started a revelation that changed medieval Europe, not to...
Bad Thinking Can Cost You Your Life

Bad Thinking Can Cost You Your Life

Did you ever stop to analyze the continual conversation going on in your head? We should because, as it has been said before, no one speaks to you more than yourself. That is, each of us has a running conversation going on inside of us, and we rarely stop long enough...
Jesus Still Does What He Does

Jesus Still Does What He Does

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” Hebrews 13:8 I have a dear friend who loves Jesus who is a Cessationist. That is the technical term for the belief that the gifts of the Holy Spirit recorded in the New Testament have ceased to exist since...
Reformation Day Is Approaching: How Will You Celebrate?

Reformation Day Is Approaching: How Will You Celebrate?

In a little more than a month we will be celebrating 500 years since Martin Luther published his Ninety-Five Theses, thus splintering Catholicism and giving birth to the Protestant Church. Why is that event so important in history? The Reformation rescued the Gospel...
Truth + Experience = Kisses of God

Truth + Experience = Kisses of God

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your...