Since James is the likely the oldest writing of the New Testament, it appears from James 4:1-17 that church conflicts have been around almost as long as the Christian church has existed. Instead of treating fights as a normal part of church life, this text exposes their causes and provides the solution. Some of the words are blunt, but they are necessary to drive us to God’s grace, which is greater than all our sin.
There is a word that runs through Jesus’ farewell discourse and appears eleven times in John 15:1-17 in one form or another. It can...
In the previous section, Paul asserted that no one can be right before God by observing the law but rather through faith in Christ. ...
Although the books of Kings and Chronicles cover much of the same history, they have different and complimentary perspectives, focusing mostly on the time...