God's Word For You

Can a person be assured of salvation? Can genuine believers be lost? Is our salvation totally in the hands of Christ, and therefore secure? Or is it partly in our own hands, and therefore fragile and uncertain? If our salvation is secure, what is the significance of the New Testament warnings against falling away? This extensive study is in a table format, presenting New Testament passages relative to assurance along with comments on their meaning and significance. Technically this is not a series of studies, but one long and comprehensive study.

This powerful study series presents a comprehensive biblical perspective on marriage. Biblical teaching on marriage is presented from the perspective of creation, from the perspective of the fall, from the perspective of the incarnation, from the perspective of redemption, regeneration and reconciliation, from the perspective of the imperfect, interim age in which we live as Christians, and from the perspective of celebration. Even if you have a good marriage these studies will provide a new dimension to your understanding of marriage and your commitment to glorify God in your marriage.

This brief series of studies on Paul's Letter to the Colossian Christians focuses on the key teachings that Paul gave them to counteract the destructive false teaching that was taking hold in the church. Because many churches today have been penetrated by similar false and destructive doctrines, this brief but powerful letter is acutely relevant to contemporary Christianity. These studies attempt to reaffirm those same foundational perspectives that Paul identified as he attacked the false teaching head-on.

This series on Ephesians contains nine studies which take you progressively through Paul's impactive letter to the church at Ephesus. Here you will learn about the sheer greatness and wonder of your salvation, of God's immeasurable grace, of Christian unity in Christ, of the lifestyle appropriate for those who are God's well-loved children, and of the total adequacy of Christ to protect believers from the accusations and deceptions of the evil one.

The Letter to the Hebrews was written to snatch people back from the brink of giving up on Jesus. This study series challenges us to embrace such a high view of Jesus Christ, such a high view of his mediation between themselves and God, and such a high view of the complete, final, once-for-all manner in which his death deals with our sin and guilt that we will never again be tempted to doubt, and never again be tempted to fall into the ultimate sin - that sin of unbelief in which we turn our backs on Jesus Christ, despising both him and his cross.

This series of studies on the Gospel of John will challenge you with John's high view of Christ and confront you, possibly even offend you, with John's presentation of the exclusive and absolute claims made by Jesus Christ about his real identity and about his essential and indispensible role in spiritual life and salvation. As far as John is concerned, as far as Jesus Christ is concerned, not only is there no other way to God but Jesus Christ, but also there is no other true truth about God but that knowledge of God that stands before us here in his Son, Jesus Christ. He, Jesus Christ, is 'the Light'; everything else is 'the darkness'.

John's Gospel puts before us the ultimate spiritual challenge, the ultimate spiritual choice: if we do not see God here, in Jesus Christ, we will not find the real God anywhere. If we reject Jesus Christ we are rejecting God. If we receive Jesus Christ we are receiving God.

John presents Jesus Christ as God's final self-revelation, God's final word. Here God says to us: this is who I am; look at me; believe in me, here in human flesh, here in this man, my eternal Son, Jesus Christ.

There is no other way. There is no other God. 

This study series focuses on the perfect and final revelation of God in his Son, Jesus Christ. As you work through these nine studies and the associated worksheets you will be impacted by the sheer power of the claims Jesus made about himself. In seeing him you will see God. In knowing him, you will know God. You will realise that the age-long question 'What is God like?' is answered when we look at Jesus.

These extensive studies on Romans take you right into the heart of St Paul as he struggles to unite the Jewish and Gentile believers in Rome. As they progress through this letter they expose the gross sinfulness of man that necessitated a salvation that is totally disconnected from law-based, performance-based merit. They take you deep into the amazing meaning of justification by faith alone, into the sheer perfection of the salvation we have in Christ Jesus. They liberate you from guilt and condemnation, explaining the extreme siginficance of the believer's identification with Christ in his death. They lift you up to serve the Lord with freedom, peace and joy.

Have you ever wondered what words like incarnation, justification, redemption, and substitutionary atonement mean? This series on Salvation contains brief studies explaining the meaning and significance of these and other concepts used in the Bible in relation to salvation. In understanding these concepts your appreciation of Christ and your confidence in what he did for you will be enhanced.

This series of seven studies on Paul's letter to the Galatians takes a deep look at the issue of legalism in the church which was current then and which still troubles and enslaves many contemporary Christians. These studies, like the letter they are focused on, challenge you to trust solely in the salvation provided by Christ, and live before God free from guilt and condemnation.

These additional studies on prayer are designed to cover biblical aspects of prayer not contained in the studies on the Lord's Prayer. They include a section on biblical boundaries in prayer, and a section dealing with difficult questions about prayer.

How many people have asked you questions about suffering? Or, how many questions have you yourself asked as you wonder how a God who is  loving and good and powerful can allow the suffering that surrounds us here on earth? Or, how often have you been tempted to succomb to the unbelieving mindset that makes a direct connection between personal sin and suffering? This study series presents a view of suffering that upholds both the goodness and the sovereignty of God and traces the reason for suffering back to Genesis 3. Having established this biblical perspective the studies then take a look at how a man of faith, Job, endured extreme suffering, not because of any sin or lack of faith, but precisely because he was a man of faith.

This is an extensive series of studies on the Lords Prayer. Each part of the prayer is studied in depth and filled with powerful significance by the study of related Old and New Testament texts.

This study series is the result of a detailed analysis of the occurrence of the miraculous in the ministry of Jesus and the New Testament apostles, and in the life of the New Testament church. 

These studies were written, and posted on this site, to identify the role of the miraculous in the New Testament era, and to determine on the basis of New Testament teaching what role can be validly given to the miraculous today, and what biblical boundaries are in place to define what our expectations and understanding of the miraculous ought to be.

This is a series of studies on the person of Christ as he is presented by the various New Testament writers. To those writers the critical question which determined a person's eternal destiny was the question Jesus asked his disciples: Who do you say that I am? This same questions challenges us from the pages of these studies, which can be used for personal or study group use over a period of weeks or months.