“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...