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God's Pattern for Every Generation—and His Final Word to Mankind "I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name."— Psalm 138:2 If there is one unmistakable pattern woven throughout the pages of Scripture, it is this: Whenever God moves among His people, it begins with His Word. God has never built His work upon human wisdom, religious tradition, political influence, or c

Part One The Church Age: Why God Calls Us to Walk by Faith, Not by Sight Why the Scriptures—Not Signs—Are the Believer's Final Authority "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."— Matthew 7:15 Every generation of Christians has faced its own peculiar dangers. The early church battled Judaizers who sought to place believers back under the Law. Later generations contended with Gnosticism, Romanism, rationalism, lib

"Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me." — Matthew 16:24 Matthew 16 marks one of the great turning points in our Lord's earthly ministry. Only moments after Simon Peter makes one of the greatest confessions recorded in Scripture, he receives one of the strongest rebukes ever spoken by the Lord Jesus. How could the same man be commended by Christ in one moment and corrected so sharply in th

Why Religious Man Rejects the Gospel of Grace "But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."— 2 Corinthians 11:3 There has never been a greater battle fought than the battle over the Gospel. From the Garden of Eden until this present hour, Satan's greatest objective has never been to make man irreligious. Rather, his masterpiece has been to corrupt the truth of God jus