Deeper Life

The Uniqueness of Christ

As surely as God is faithful, our word to you has not been Yes and No. For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes. For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is…

Resting in the Lord

Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” (Psalm 91:1–2)

This psalm appears nameless in the Bible — author unknown, circumstance unknown —…

Not I, but Christ

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. (Galatians 2:20, NASB)

Subduing the Stubborn Human Will

Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. (Psalm 118:27b)

This brief scripture passage describes the sacrificial animal, the lamb or the bull that was to be slain. It needed to be bound, tied up, so that it will not escape and run…

The Deeper Life

“…That we might become the righteousness of God.”

2 Corinthians 5:21

We have a wonderful life in Christ. The Christian life does not begin at death, but at conversion and the Bible describes this new life in grand terms, as life in abundance, as…

Deeper Wisdom

Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men,
 from men whose words are perverse,

who have left the straight paths
 to walk in dark ways…