Scripture does not present conversion as a bare change of opinion. It presents conversion as a transfer of ownership, and the moment that transfer occurs, the convert stands in a new relation: he is a servant. Conversion and servanthood are not two separate blessings following one another. They are the same fact described from two vantage points. To be converted is to become a servant of God, and to be a servant of God is what conversion means. Paul states this identity plainly of the...

In Matthew 20:1-16, the Lord tells of a householder who goes out at daybreak, at the third hour, the sixth, the ninth, and even the eleventh hour, to hire laborers for his vineyard. At evening he pays every man the same penny, whether he labored twelve hours or one. Those hired first murmur against the goodman, reckoning that more labor should have earned more wage. But he answers, “Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?” Their...

True Christian education is not the transmission of information but the bringing of children to Christ himself, cultivated jointly by a Bible-believing and Bible-practicing home and church. When mothers brought their little children to Jesus "that he should put his hands on them, and pray," the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus answered, "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 19:14). The first principle, then, is that...