“Epaphras, who is one of your number, a bondslave of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God,” Colossians 4:12. In about AD 62, the Christians in Colosse received Paul’s letter addressed to them from Rome, Italy by the hands of Tychicus and Onesimus. They had never met St. Paul hims...  Read More

Parents, love your kids. This is a high calling, and may God bless you by it as you bless Him in it.     The following excerpt is from the book, “Missionary Patriarch: The True Story of John G. Paton.”     With all my heart I encourage you to go and listen to John Piper’s biography on Paton entitled, “You Will Be Eaten by Cannibals! Lessons from the Life of John G. Paton.” This is part of a whole ...  Read More

 “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful,” Colossians 3:15.      Many times I’ve been asked, “Do I have to go to church to be a Christian?” The answer isn’t really as simple as “yes” or “no.” Now of course God’s irresistible grace is not limited to where one hears it or even who delivers it audibly. God has saved men in every venue ...  Read More

In a commentary on Colossians chapter 3 from Jamieson, Fausset and Brown we read: “Of ourselves we can no more ascend than a bar of iron lift itself up from the earth. But the love of Christ is a powerful magnet to draw us up (Eph 2:5,6). The design of the Gospel is not merely to give rules, but mainly to supply motives to holiness.” To this I say a hearty, “amen.”     The gospel motivates a man f...  Read More

Psalm 39:5: “Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah”     I think it was a lot easier for men 1,000 or 5,000 years ago to understand this. Not all did of course, I’m only saying I think it was easier to. Whatever else it was like to live in the ancient world, I’m relatively certain that things wer...  Read More

Ephesians 4:11 reads: “And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers.” All of these ministerial offices have their place in the church today. The Apostles that Christ chose in His day are as much for me today in their writings as they were verbally or personally to those who heard them. In one sense every believer is a disciple of eac...  Read More