This Week's Focus Passage: Job 2:9 'Dost thou still hold fast thy integrity? Renounce God, and die.' This has been, we imagine, a perennial problem among theologians and writers of commentaries, to explain or determine, with any good reason, just what the status, or spiritual climate of Job's wife was. It is more than remarkable that Satan left her to Job after virtuall...

This Week's Focus Passage: John 6:66 'Upon this many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.' We may read the 'pre-quel' to this disturbing verse, in the sixth chapter of the fourth gospel. The response of these 'disciples' did not transpire in a vacuum, but rather it was fostered in a crucible. That crucible was Truth; Truth in the Person of Jesus Ch...

This Week's Focus Passage: John 6:44 'No man can come to me, except the Father that sent me draw him.' This one great and marvelous verse epitomizes, we firmly believe, the teaching of the Sovereignty of God in the salvation of man; any man, woman, child. We understand that the very first three words of this verse absolutely stick in the craw of unregenerate, sinful ma...

This Week's Focus Passage: Jeremiah 31:3 'Jehovah appeared of old unto me, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.' We are not able to forbear, including at the outset, a lengthy citation from the commentary on the book of Jeremiah, by that notable pastor and preacher, Dr. John Gill. Admitting the source of o...