Observing Advent, or any other calendar season or date, does not secure or keep us in God’s favor. Christ has finished that work, and, through his Spirit, we are joined…
James calls his hearers to endure suffering with patience through establishing their hearts, standing firm on the Rock and drinking from the Fountain of Living Water.
“…in those days Christians neither spoke of nor thought of preaching as "sitting round" the word of God; or of preachers who "shared" it; or, for that matter, of clergymen…
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Speaking evil of fellow Christians is wrong not only because it involves ‘judging the law’; it is wrong also because it involves ‘judging the neighbour’. And this critical, condemnatory judgment…