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The Whole Armor of God: How Christ’s Victory Strengthens Us for Spiritual Warfare is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Ephesians ends with a charge to Christians to take up the armor of God so they will be equipped to fight in a spiritually dangerous world. But they often think they must put on this armor themselves in order to stand. In reality, God himself clothes his people with his armor, the same armor that Jesus wore when he won the ultimate battle for us at the cross—and therefore God’s own...

John 3, Jesus compares the process of becoming a Christian to birth. Just as a baby doesn’t have control over the time and circumstances of her birth, so God chose when to regenerate you and bring you to faith in Christ. Even after a child is born, she cannot choose to grow or not to grow. She may wish to be taller or shorter, but wishing won’t make it so. In the same way, we are not in control of the process of our spiritual growth. The God who has started a good work in us will bring it to completion
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