The Faithful Christian a blog of The Lighthouse Ministries

  This article was written by A.W. Tozer in the 1950’s.  It shows the state of the church during his lifetime and friend, it’s much worse today.  Imagine what this old saint of God would think today. ALL UNANNOUNCED AND MOSTLY UNDETECTED there has come in modern times a new cross into popular evangelical circles. It is like the old cross, but different: the likenesses are superficial; the differences, fundamental. From this new cross has sprung a new philosophy of the Christian life, and from that new philosophy has come a new evangelical technique, a new type of meeting and a new kind of preaching. This new evangelism employs the same language as the old, but its content is not the same and its emphasis not as before. The old cross would have no truck with the world. For Adam's proud flesh it meant the end of the journey. It carried into effect the sentence imposed by the law of Sinai. The new cross is not opposed to the human race; rather, it is a friendly pal and, if understood

  In exactly one week we will celebrate Reformation Day.  I preach this every year, Christians should have nothing whatsoever to do with Halloween. So, here we are again.  If Christians want to celebrate a holiday on Oct. 31, then celebrate Reformation Day, it’s much more fitting for people who claim to follow Jesus, What is Reformation Day?  I’m glad you asked. A single event on a single day changed the world. It was October 31, 1517. Martin Luther, a monk and a scholar, had struggled for years with his church, the Roman Catholic Church. He had been greatly disturbed by the churches sale of indulgences and felt the church needed rehabilitation and he was just the monk to stage an intervention, so to speak. A young bishop, Albert of Mainz was bishop over two bishoprics, he desired an additional archbishopric over Mainz. This was against church laws because he was far too young for the office.  So Albert appealed to the Pope in Rome, Leo X.  Leo X greedily allowed his tastes to exceed h

  Why does Christ want some to not  believe? That’s a perplexing question for a lot of Bible readers who scratch their heads when they meet texts like  Matthew 13:13  and  Luke 8:10 .  There really are two questions here. They’re both good. One is, Does  1 Timothy 2:4  imply that God’s desire for all to be saved rules out his decisive sovereignty over who is in fact saved? So, if he  desires  all to be saved, are you going to draw the inference that he can’t be involved in choosing some to be saved and some to pass over and not be saved? That’s one question.   The other question is, what is God’s reasoning or purpose behind preventing some people from seeing the truth and being saved in Luke 8? Now, let’s take those one at a time and then relate them. Whose Will? First Timothy 2:1–4  goes like this:   I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet l

  Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in the  faith , just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.    Colossians 2:6-7 If you grew up in America, you probably heard somewhere along the line that sentences should never end with prepositions, infinitives should never be split, passive voice is taboo, and metaphors should never be mixed. We have those rules, for the most part, to preserve clarity as writers learn the craft. But sometimes grammar rules need to be broken, just as Paul does here by cramming metaphors right up against each other, and for good reason. So walk in Him : It all begins with a walk. Jesus put splinters in His back to stumble up a hill, and He expects no less of us ( Matthew 16:24 ). We sometimes struggle over the rocky ground, and obstacles define the journey as much as the path itself ( Psalm 37:24 ). But God laid out the lines ( Psalm 16:11 ), emblazoned the roadway with clear markers