The Person of the Gospel
“The gospel of God … concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom. 1:1, 3) The central element of the gospel is the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Unlike the many religions of the world, true Christianity cannot be disassociated...
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The Word of the Gospel
What's in a word? What is this word of the gospel? In a word, it’s an expression. We say, “May I have a word with you?” Of course, we mean a complete conversation and not just one word. We read in...
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Am I in Fellowship?
A daily walk in the light As we read the New Testament, we can’t help but notice the monumental roll the church played in the lives of the early believers. Once the church came into being (Acts 2), the vast majority...
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Acting on Acts
Careful! That book is alive! If Paul visited your assembly for a time, and then wrote an epistle to you all, what would it say? It shouldn’t surprise us that the early believers “turned the world upside down.” After all, they had...
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Fellow Citizens
The destruction of the double wall The church at Ephesus was largely comprised of converted Gentiles. In the opening ten verses of Ephesians 2, Paul shows that, prior to their conversion, they (the “you”) had shared a common spiritual predicament with...
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Fellow Servants
“…truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.” (1 Jn 1:3b) There is something rather warm and heartening in the term “fellow.” A man who is my fellow is, at some level, my neighbour and certainly...
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Why is Fellowship so Important?
What makes fellowship so important is that man was created to enjoy fellowship with his God, and undoubtedly did so in his unfallen state in Eden. But the entrance of sin changed all that, and the spiritual death which ensued...
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Paul’s Fellow Laborers
Lessons in labouring together “And for this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.” (Col. 1:29) The study of how Paul related to his companions in the service of Christ is revealing—and humbling. Before his...
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