Holiness

Be Perfect

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5:48)

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. (James 1:27)

Guard Your Heart

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. (Proverbs 4:23 ESV)

We are exceedingly unwise to forget this fact — that our life consists of our thoughts, and our thoughts are engendered by what we think about.

Friendship with the World

You are like unfaithful wives, flirting with the glamour of this world, and never realising that to be the world’s lover means becoming the enemy of God! Anyone who deliberately chooses to love the world is thereby making himself God’s enemy. (James 4:4 Phillips Translation)

Holy God

Your way, God, is holy. What god is great like our God? (Psalm 77:13 ESV)

We should give serious thought to the nature of God when we pray. We easily fall into the trap of being swallowed up with the perspectives and the concerns of the world, yet they are as far from heaven as we…

Preserved Blameless

Now may the God of peace himself make you completely holy and may your spirit and soul and body be kept entirely blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thes. 5:23)

What is our best hope in this life?

Being a Holy People

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. (Hebrews 12:14)

Holiness today seems to be a lost concept among Christians. We are so afraid of legalism or judging one another that we emphasize grace to the point of…

Integrity in My House

I will walk with integrity of heart within my house… (Psalm 101:2b)

The idea of a family making a home in a house is in the Bible, and it has remained a core value of human civilization. A Christian home is a blessed thing, and it has the potential to bless the…

David: a Man of God

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;
heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.
My soul also is greatly troubled. (Psalm 6:2–3a)

Some have suspected David of being bi-polar, his sorrow went so deep and his joy soared so high. There was certainly that…

The Root of Bitterness

Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled. (Hebrews 12:14–15)

Conflict with the World

My time is not yet here; for you any time will do. The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that its works are evil.

John 7:6–7

Perhaps these words are one of the strongest condemnations of Jesus in His earthly…