“I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he  bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.”
– John 15:5

 Seminary President J. Alistair Brown tells of the time when he was walking through a beautiful city park:

“I passed a massive oak tree. A vine had grown up along its trunk. The vine started small—nothing to bother about. But over the years the vine had gotten taller and taller. By the time I passed, the entire...

For we  are not fighting against flesh and blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places. – Ephesians 6:12

Over the past two years, my wife and I have made it a habit to take a morning walk along a path that begins and ends at a Circle K where we get our morning coffee before returning home. Over that time we have gotten to know the mana...

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
– Ephesians 2:8-10

In Philip Yancey’s wonderful modern classic, “What’s So Amazing About Grace?” he tells a story about C.S. Lewis, considered by many to be the greatest theologian of the 20th cen...