Revival meetings. Remember those days when an evangelist or “revivalist” would visit your church for a week or two or more of special meetings geared to getting God’s people “revived,” in hopes that when the meetings were concluded the church would be in a healthier state with a renewed burden for souls and with rechargedContinue reading “Revive Us Again”
Author Archives: Dr. Anthony Slutz
The Believer and His Mammon
Jesus concluded a lesson in Luke 16:1-13 with the categorical statement, “Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” Mammon is a word that has roots in Aramaic and Latin and Greek languages and generally means what one trusts and is commonly considered one’s wealth. Jesus referred to “the mammon of unrighteousness” (v.9) indicating that it isContinue reading “The Believer and His Mammon”
She Had Waited 70 Years!
Preachers often answer the difficult question about peoples in isolated places or third world countries that do not have a church and a copy of God’s Word to read. How can they be saved? Are they condemned then to eternal damnation for never having heard? The brief but Biblical answer to that honest question is that natural revelationContinue reading “She Had Waited 70 Years!”
Growing in Grace
Except for his standard greetings in the two New Testament epistles that bear his name, the Apostle Peter does not have a lot to say about grace (“Grace and peace be multiplied unto you….). But his last recorded words, 2 Peter 3:18 are pregnant with meaning: “But grow in grace and in the knowledge of ourContinue reading “Growing in Grace”
“If I Were the Devil”
The late ABC commentator Paul Harvey (1918-2009) wrote the following piece which has been posted and updated many times since its first presentation by the inimitable newscaster who always ended his news program with, “…Good day!” His style and his honesty as a reporter were in stark contrast to what you will hear on almost anyContinue reading ““If I Were the Devil””
Burden Bearing
“Bear ye one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.” “For every man shall bear his own burden.” (Gal.6:2,5) I once read a fable entitled “The Encumbered Ant.” It seems a certain little ant felt life had dealt him a bad deal. It had fallen his lot to carry a piece of straw that wasContinue reading “Burden Bearing”
The Theology of Pain
In his treatise on spiritual matters in the classic eighth chapter of Romans Paul plainly posits in verse 22 that “the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.” It was so because of the universal consequences ultimately of sin and it is only bearable because of the hope that believers possess that inContinue reading “The Theology of Pain”
What’s That in Your Hand?
It was only a rod, a common, simple shepherd’s stick that Moses had picked up somewhere on the desert; a rod like any other rod. There was nothing uncommon about it; there was nothing especially noteworthy concerning it: it looked like a thousand other rods that any of many shepherds might have carried. “What is that inContinue reading “What’s That in Your Hand?”
Broken
You’ve been to college—maybe even seminary. You’ve been graduated, certified, ordained and commissioned with every credential in order, and, in time you have been or you will be culled and called to serve. On your resume there is nothing lacking, nothing sparing. You literally “fit the bill” and by every conceivable canon you are fully equipped and readyContinue reading “Broken”
Are You a Mature Believer?
Three questions every person would do well to ask one’s self are: (1) Am I a Christian? (2) Am I a spiritual Christian? (3) Am I a mature Christian? Where are you in your pilgrimage from here to eternity? How did you answer those basic questions? Consider then: a Christian is a person who isContinue reading “Are You a Mature Believer?”
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