G. W. Steel

I’ve met many sincere Christians who spend considerable time wondering and praying, “What is God’s will for my life?” Maybe you have thought about that question in your quiet moments, too. Some believers have settled the issue and are pursuing what they believe to be God’s special calling. Others don’t think the subject is even […]

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23, ESV) Literary editors claim that the phrase “free gift” is redundant. They say the idea of free is implicit in the definition of “gift” and so is unnecessary to mention. However, Paul […]

It would be a glaring understatement to say that the Church today is in deep crisis. And not just local churches and their leaders—but the whole enterprise of global Christianity. You don’t have to be a prophet to know something has gone terribly wrong somewhere along the way. I was confronted with one aspect of […]

Over decades of study, I have pondered many of Jesus’ pithy sayings. One that has especially intrigued me is in John 5:17, where Jesus said, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.”[1] What could Jesus possibly have meant by that? As best I can tell, this statement indicates a supernatural relationship […]