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 […]
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 […]
Are You A Christian? ┬┤├®├Ç Going to church does not make you a Christian; nor does saying a prayer, going down an aisle, passing a catechism, telling yourself that you are, or trying to be a decent person. You can only be a Christian if Christ is in you, which can be tested and proven […]