“We are beggars, this is true.” The story passed down through history is that these words were scribbled down by Martin Luther on a piece of paper and stuffed into his pocket while he was lying on his deathbed. You can imagine what he was thinking. He was a weary pilgrim at the end of […]

Matt hefted the paper grocery bag as his dad walked deeper into their garden. The tasseled ends of the cornstalks waved way above Matt’s head while the broad, green leaves scraped against his arms and legs. His sister Abby trailed behind him, lugging her own bag of corn. Their dad paused and peeled back the […]

We have been asked to give a brief dissertation on the text found in Philippians 2:12, 13. No motivation was given to signify the reason for this request. We are assuming that it was more than to give an old retired minister something to do. Was it perhaps because it appears on the surface that […]

The question is: Are good works the condition to our salvation or the fruit of our salvation? Again we will use faith as an illustration to keep the issue clearly before us. There are in particular two ways that faith is spoken of as a condition to salvation. The first is that our salvation in […]