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 […]
Repentance Religion vs. Repentance ┬┤├®├Ç Many think the word repent means “to get your act together” or to “get religion” or “fly straight”; as if we could. Repentance requires taking in a whole new point of view; looking at it God’s way. God simply asks us to turn. This is the way we accept His […]
The Spirit & The Bride John 15:26 (NIV) “When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me.” John 16:13 (NAS) “But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all truth; for […]
The New Legalism …Letter excerpt from Dean VanDruff to a correspondent asking, “Is He the God of the Jews Only?”–Rom 3:29) concerning the popular drift among some Christians to embrace legalistic “Torah Observance” as a supposed step of spiritual maturity. Oddly, we are getting asked about this from all over. Supposedly mature brothers calling and […]