Faith and love are two excellent virtues of the believers in Christ; they are inseparable, for through faith we receive the Lord and through love we enjoy the Lord whom we have received. Amen! We need to cooperate with the Lord to have our faith and love developed day by day in our Christian life. […]
Let us pray for the saints to follow the apostle Paul’s pattern in boasting in those gained, perfected, and built up through him
Dear saints, let us pray that the saints would follow the pattern of the apostle Paul, who boasted in those who had been gained, perfected, and built up through him (2 Thes. 1:3-4; Phil. 2:16-17; 2 Cor. 9:2; 1:14). In 2 Thessalonians 1:3 and 4 Paul says, “We ought to thank God always concerning you, […]
Grow unto Maturity in life and be Built up to be Prepared as the Bride of Christ
The readiness of the bride of Christ depends on the maturity in life of the overcomers, and in addition to being mature in life, the bride must be built up as a corporate person. There is a difference between the bride of Christ in Rev. 19 and the wife of Christ in Rev. 21 and […]
the Christian living is the living and the experience of grace in the church life
Psalm 133 is a very good picture of the church life today, and a picture is more than 1000 words. Here we see “how good” and “how pleasant” for brothers to dwell in oneness, and this oneness is “like the oil” and “like the dew”. The compound ointment with which the priest was anointed typifies […]
faith and love are two inseparable virtues of the believers in Christ, Titus 3:15
My words are not adequate, but I enjoyed Titus 3:15 all these past few months, especially by listening to it being sung, me singing it, singing it with the saints in a spontaneous way, and reading & enjoying the explanatory footnotes on this short verse. It is indeed true: the Word has so much in […]