Theological Treatises

    The Importance of Giving Up Dedicated to everyone who casts him- or herself entirely on Jesus The most important thing a sinner can do, is to come to Christ with absolutely no resources whatsoever.  Until we admit that we cannot do this  life  thing on our own; and that everything we have sought out as an object of fulfillment has not fulfilled us; and that we are totally destitute of any more ideas for how we can solve our problems--we will remain miserable lost souls.   . . . But, if, by grace, we come to God in Jesus Christ, in prayer; and cast ourselves entirely on him, admitting that we are at the "ends" of our "ropes"; and that we truly and finally "give up"--and then, by grace though faith throw ourselves on Christ and His mercy, we enter a new world we could never have imagined; and this new kingdom, thoroughly centered on Christ, reorients everything in us and about us.   The Publican, in the Parable of the Publican and the Pharisee, ...

  The Israel of God in the Middle East Dedicated to all regenerate Christians living in the Middle East I strongly suspect that the most  important  people, and the most  sublime  activity taking place in the Middle East today, are seriously neglected--even among thoughtful and well-informed Christians. Who  constitutes the "Israel of God," (Gal. 6:16b), in the Middle East (or anywhere else in the rest of the world) today?  According to the Holy Scripture, in both the Old and New Testaments, the "Israel of God" are the people who truly believe in the one and only God.  The only way to believe in the one and only God is through saving (or regenerative) faith in Jesus Christ, The God/Man Second Person of the Holy Trinity. . . . Therefore, the "Israel of God" is the church of Christ, made up of elect and redeemed Jews and Gentiles.  No one else is or can be the "Israel of God."  Since this is true, what are we to make of...