Teaching by George Lewellyn (Page 61)

Paul in today’s text will tell those of us who are born-again believers that we are in the process of having our souls transformed through supernatural metamorphosis into the image of Christ. The IVP Commentary describes this process as follows: “Transformation is not a one-shot affair. It is…

Paul in 2 Corinthians 3 tells the church at Corinth that they are “an Epistle of Christ.” H. A. Ironside used to like to say “it takes the whole church to make His epistle, but each one of us is one little verse in that epistle.” So what kind of testimony do the verses of our lives say to this lost…

C. S. Lewis once said, “Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy is offered to us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is…

Scientists now say that it wasn’t a giant gash that sunk the 900-foot cruise ship, the Titanic, but instead a series of small narrow slits across the watertight holds in the hull of the ship.  Fifteen hundred people died as the result of small chinks in the armor of that ship. As Christians, small…

When Corrie Ten Boom was a young girl she told her father that she feared that if persecution came to her homeland she would never be strong enough to stand for Jesus Christ. Her father told her, “Corrie, tell me, when you make a train trip to Amsterdam, when do I give you the ticket? Three weeks…

In today’s text, Paul makes what seems to be a very harsh statement when he says, “If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed.” But in that statement, he wasn’t cursing the lost, he was just simply giving them a prophetic warning of their state without Jesus Christ. We know…

Sir Walter Raleigh’s closing words in his work, History of the World, clearly portray what seems to be death’s victory over men: It is therefore death alone that can make any man suddenly know himself. Death tells the proud and insolent that they are but subjects, and humbles them in an instant. He makes them cry, complain, and repent. Yes, even to hate their forepasssed…

Tony Evans tells the story of a little boy who tripped and his left hand fell into the mud. His mom told him to go inside and clean his dirty hand. He came back out a few minutes later and he had two dirty hands. His mother scolded him saying, “I thought I told you to clean your dirty hand!” The…

Thomas Jefferson was one of the greatest presidents in the history of our country. He called himself a Christian, but he could not accept the supernatural elements of the Scriptures, especially the resurrection. He edited his own special version of the Bible in which he deleted all references to…

When we think of the saints we think of the New Orleans Saints or the great saints of old like Saint Peter and Saint Augustine. The Mormons even refer to themselves as the Church of the Latter Day Saints. But did you know that the real saints are not a football team, or super Christians from…