Imperishable Inheritance

Solomon, a man blessed by God with wis­dom, gives us some of the most pro­found wis­dom regard­ing our inter-personal rela­tion­ships: “Bet­ter is open rebuke Than love that is con­cealed. Faith­ful are the wounds of a friend, But deceit­ful are the kisses of an enemy.” (Pro 27:5–6) Reflect­ing on this often quoted pas­sage makes me real­ize how important […]

The more I grow in the faith the more I am astounded by cer­tain rev­e­la­tions in the Scrip­tures. I believe that the Scrip­tures teach God alone saves sin­ners through His Son (John 14:6; Acts 4:12; Rom 8:29–33; Eph 2:8–10). That is already an amaz­ing teach­ing! But what strikes me even more than that is that our omnipo­tent god […]

This last week­end I was invited by a friend to attend his con­gre­ga­tion. Nor­mally, it wouldn’t be abnor­mal, but my friend is a Mor­mon. Our con­ver­sa­tions have been good, but it’s been dif­fi­cult to wit­ness to some­one who claims the same sav­ior as I. It feels like a con­stant cir­cle of debat­ing friv­o­lous issues when the true issue gets […]