Doctrine

Matthew Henry (1662-1714), warmly remembered for his commentary on the entire Bible which became the best known, most widely used and deeply loved commentary in history, in his introduction to [...]

I wish to focus this morning on one of the letters that the Lord Jesus dictated to the Apostle John, the letter that John has recorded in Revelation 2:8-11: And to the angel of the church in [...]

by Andrew Lansdown Unity is one of the attributes, one of the characteristics, of God. While “unity”, as a theological term, may be unfamiliar to some Christians, most Christians would be [...]

Life Ministries is founded on the assumption that the Bible is the very Word of God, and as such is entirely trustworthy and true. All of the social, moral, theological and pastoral positions we [...]

Andrew Lansdown and I have been colleagues at Life Ministries for over 30 years.  But, more than that, we have been friends.  There are few people that I am closer to than Andrew, and I suspect [...]

Matthew 10 reveals Jesus’ confronting and intimidating plan for growing his Kingdom. As he commissions his disciples for a short-term mission in Israel, he commissions his entire church for its [...]

In an essay published in the last issue of Life News I argued that there is “One good thing about hell”—namely, that no one has to go there. Anyone and everyone who turns in repentance and faith [...]

I spoke just now of fiddling while Rome burns. But to a Christian the true tragedy of Nero must be not that he fiddled while the city was on fire but that he fiddled on the brink of hell. You [...]

Hell is a subject that Christians do not like to talk about. However, there is a lot of plain-speaking about hell in the Bible, and so it seems to me that occasionally there should be a bit of [...]

The Apostle John states in his first letter in the Bible that, on the first Christmas Day, Jesus Christ “appeared” among us. This is an unusual way of speaking about a person’s birth. Imagine a [...]