Crumbs from the Master's Table

"To take hold of the Son and to believe in Him with the heart as the gift of God causes God to reckon that faith, however imperfect it ...

"When in 1 Corinthians Paul said that a man should examine himself, he spoke only of adults because he was speaking about those who wer...

"He who knows Christ aright holds him fast, embraces him with both arms, is completely taken up with him, and desires nothing beyond hi...

Speaking of the righteousness of faith that God imputes to us through Christ apart from works, Luther says this of its surpassing worth: C...

The famous Rom. 6:23 reads: "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (tr...

Prof. Beale: It is generally acknowledged that Paul's introductory thanksgivings (and pray/blessing) contain the major themes to be de...

"Love of benevolence is that disposition which a man has who desires or delights in the good of another. And this is the main thing in ...

"To be kind is to have a disposition freely to do good. Whatever good is done, it is no proper kindness in the doer of it unless it be ...

Speaking of how to view the apostle Paul, New Testament scholar Michael Bird suggests five images: persecutor , missionary , theologian , pa...

Commenting on the situation in Corinth that Paul is confronting in 2 Cor. 10:1ff, Professor Carson draws out this important contemporary app...

Addressing some of the crucial lessons to be learned from Paul's passionate pen in 2 Corinthians 10–13, Professor Carson speaks to one o...

"It is always much more difficult for Christians to detect a fundamentally sinful attitude in other Christians than in pagans—especiall...

Commenting on 2 Corinthians 10–13, and speaking of how Paul handled the crisis in Corinth generated by the accusations of intruders and inte...

"It is the nature of love, or at least love to a superior as such [e.g., God], even to incline and dispose to imitation. A child's ...

Edwards on Christian meekness, from a sermon on 1 Cor. 13:4 in his justly famous series Charity and Its Fruits : If men after they are off...

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) and John Calvin (1509–1564), two of the world's most prominent pastor-theologians, speak eloquently to the ...

Speaking of the Corinthian correspondence: No part of the Pauline corpus more clearly illuminates the character of Paul the man, Paul the ...

The meeting house where Edwards preached "Charity and Its Fruits" Jonathan Edwards' sermons on 1 Corinthians 13, preached ...

"The only man who should be counted a real theologian is he who can build up men's consciences in the fear of God." —John Ca...

N. T. Wright writes:  In these ‘pastoral’ letters Paul regularly refers to Jesus with a title the Roman world used for Caesar: ‘saviour’. ...