The Narrow Path Ministries

I just read Thayer's "The Origin and History of the Doctrine of Endless Punishment," which can be read online at this link: http://www.tentmaker.org/books/OriginandHistory.shtml I cut and pasted it to a Word document, and converted it to 12-point text, with one-inch margins, which rendered it about ...

I have the same complaint as Homer does about the loud instrumental performances in meetings that are supposed to encourage corporate singing, but where there is no sense in anyone singing other than the amplified performers. As long as I don't intend to sing along, I can sometimes enjoy what the ba...

Paidion pointed out: "There is not a hint in these words that praying for our enemies can be prayer against them." To which I might add that the imprecatory prayers were not prayed against the enemies of the man of God, as such. They were prayed against evil people, indeed, but it was because those ...

Whenever you pray "Thy kingdom come..." you are praying for the failure and downfall of every enterprise that opposes the kingdom of God, including those who are the masterminds and functionaries of those enterprises.

The imprecations like those you cite in the Old Testament have their counterparts in the New Testament, too: Luke 18:3, 7-8— "Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, 'Get justice for me from my adversary.'. ..And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night t...

The closing verses of Hebrews 5.

The pastor acted upon principle. I admire him for that! The law instructs the priests of Israel not to accept money from the wages of a prostitute (Deut.23:18), meaning the church should probably not receive ill-gotten gains. I don't necessarily see playing the lottery as the moral equivalent of pro...

A Calvinist fell down a flight of stairs. After picking himself up, and brushing himself off, he said, "Well, I'm glad that's over with."

Thanks Suzana! I just realized that I had collected some of the same kinds of things some years ago (which I found by a search of my hard drive). These are all pretty much in my own words. I don't know which ones were influenced by others, though quite a few were things I felt the Lord spoke to my h...

From time to time, people have said really insightful things (some of which are famous) that have become mottos, or short poems, to which my mind often returns as life-guiding principles or values adjustments. You have perhaps heard me quote some of them in my teachings. I thought I would post a few...