Conversion

Christ’s Final Appearance

I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting, It is hard for you to kick against the goads. (Acts 9:5 NKJV)

The twelfth and final appearance of the resurrected Christ was to Saul the Pharisee, who became Paul the Apostle. Paul himself described his conversion: “Then…

Turning Back to God

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out… (Acts 3:19)

Today let me share some biblical principles about conversion and spiritual renewal. These apply both to a lost person becoming a Christian and to a saved person being spiritually renewed…

From Within, Out of the Heart

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.” (Mark 7:21–23)

The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets

Then the fifth angel sounded: And I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth. To him was given the key to the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. So the sun and the air were darkened because of the…

Coming After Jesus

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.”

Matthew 16:24

In these brief words Christ gave us a profound theology of discipleship.

The Problem with Our Heart

Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. For out of the heart come evil thoughts — murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false…

The Narrow Gate

Enter through the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and spacious and broad is the way that leads away to destruction, and many are those who are entering through it. But the gate is narrow (contracted by pressure) and the way is straitened and compressed that leads away to life, and few are those…

Grace of the First Rank

But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.