by Steve Elkins It was Mark Twain who said, “Clothes make the man…Have you ever seen a naked salesman?” A pitiful picture, yet there are plenty of preachers and well-meaning Christians who stand improperly dressed as they share the Gospel! Here’s a thought to keep you from being found in such an embarrassing posture. After

by George Müller Christians do not practically remember that while we are saved by grace, altogether by grace, so that in the matter of salvation works are altogether excluded; yet that so far as the rewards of grace are concerned, in the world to come, there is an intimate connection between the life of the

by Rob Caines The Council of Trent, in response to the Reformers’ doctrine of justification by faith alone, states the following: If anyone says that justifying faith is nothing else but confidence in the divine mercy which remits sin for Christ’s sake alone; or, that this confidence alone is that whereby we are justified, let

Recently in my daily Bible reading I came upon Luke 5:36-39. This text involves two parables which I had never studied before: the parables of the new garment and of the new wine. The concluding verse provides an explanation for both metaphors: “And no one, having drunk old wine, immediately desires new; for he says,