A New Race of Human...Commentary on Ephesians, Part 2 By Jack Kelley His purpose was to make in Himself one new man (the Church) out of the two (Jew and Gentile), thus making peace and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross by…
A New Race of Human...Commentary on Ephesians, Part 1 By Jack Kelley His purpose was to make in Himself one new man (the Church) out of the two (Jew and Gentile), thus making peace and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross by…
Uncomplicating Your Prayers: Just Do It! By Dr. Joe McKeever “When you pray, say , ‘Our Father...'” (Luke 11:2) I used to have around fifty books on prayer. C. S. Lewis said he would never write one, but that’s been done for him posthumously. Someone took articles he wrote in…
How Do We Respond? By Jonathan C. Brentner If you are like me, you find it difficult to maintain your sanity as you watch the growing apostasy in the church and look on as the world descends deeper into wickedness and violence seemingly every day. One morning this week I…
How to be Aware of Abusive Situations By Hannah Harrison AFA Journal Intern I attended the recent Southern Baptist Convention's Panel discussing their plan on how to combat sexual abuse within the church. As I listened to a panel of Godly men and women tell stories of what had happened…
You Needed Me By Jack Kelley What to give the One who really does have everything? A few years ago, when Celine Dion learned that her husband Rene had cancer, she put her career on hold to be with him. During an appearance on Oprah she was asked how she…
A Lazy Grace By Jack Kelley What if God had made the same half-hearted mediocre effort in providing the gift of salvation that many of us make in saying thanks for it? Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy to offer your whole beings as…
On Calling Evil Good and Good Evil By Dr. Robert Youngblood “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” - Isaiah 5:20 “Be careful, then, that the light within you…
Have You Really Given Your Heart to God? By Dr. Mark Creech Many years ago, the late Dr. Billy Graham was on an airplane. He was sitting behind a drunken man who was flirting with the flight attendants, using profanity and making a fool of himself. When someone pointed out…
Faithful Christian Fathers By Joseph Parker "Hear, my children, the instruction of a father, and give attention to know understanding; for I give you good doctrine: Do not forsake my law. When I was my father’s son, tender and the only one in the sight of my mother, he also…