Body, Soul, and Spirit …An email from Dean VanDruff in response to a question about the difference between the soul and spirit. What is plain to men of every religion is that we are a body plus something else. This is called “dualism” and the “something else” is alternately termed soul or spirit. In dualism […]
On Witnessing and Truth …Extracted from an email from Dean VanDruff on evangelism and witnessing. Witnessing is a form of dying to ourselves to the instinct of pleasing of men–including ourselves–which goes to the root of the word witnessing in Greek: martus, from which we get martyr. 2 Cor 4:10-11 (Phi) Every day we experience […]
False Prophecy Mat 24:3-5,10-11 (NIV) …”Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” Jesus answered, “Watch out that no one deceives you, for many will come in my name,.. At that time many will turn away from the faith… […]
The Gospel 2 Tim 2:8 (NIV) Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, descended from David. This is my gospel. ┬┤├®├Ç The gospel is a message. It is also referred to in Scripture as a “word”, a “doctrine”, a “seed”, the “good news”, “the truth”. …Because God uses the message of the gospel to reconcile […]
The End of the Age 1 Tim 4:13 (NIV) Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of scripture, to preaching and to teaching. Rev 1:3 (RSV) Blessed is he who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written therein; for the time […]
The Anointing …Extracted from a letter from Dean VanDruff to Don Wallace.… Isa 11:1-3 (NIV)A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him–the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the […]
The Great Commandment Extracted from a letter from Dean VanDruff to Hanokh Ben Qeshet Lately, I have been meditating on the words of Yeshua for us to: Mark 12:30 (NIV) “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” What […]