This verse promises ‘the fruit of righteousness’, as the reward ‘for those who make peace’. Peacemakers produce! In the atmosphere of peace, peacemakers create, the harvest of righteousness. eirēnikē, i·ray·nee·kos…
The central message of Christianity is not a worldview, a way of life, or a program for personal and societal change; it is a gospel. From the Greek word for…
The believer, in himself, will always deserve God’s judgment: our conformity to the ‘royal law’ is never perfect, as it must be (vv. 10–11). As Hort describes the image, ‘krisis…
A section from Pilgrim’s Progress, Puritan preacher and writer John Bunyan describes the magnificent mirror that the Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains showed to Christian and Mercy: Now the glass…