In a time when hearts are weary,
And the church seeks truth anew,
Let us turn to plain, Bible preaching,
For the answers that we pursue.
In the days of ancient Corinth,
Paul was conscious of the need,
To speak truth without adornment,
To the people he sought to feed.
"I came not with worldly wisdom,
Or enticing words of man's kind,
But with Spirit and God's own power,
To enlighten your heart and mind."
For the wisdom of man is fleeting,
And the words may sway, but deceive,
Yet the power of God is eternal,
In His word, we learn to believe.
Debating and arguing matters,
Cannot strengthen our faith to stand,
But a preacher imbued with the Spirit,
Leads us to God's gracious hand.
Let our faith not rest on persuasion,
But the truth that the Scriptures impart,
For a faith built on God's foundation,
Stands firm in the depths of our heart.
In the story of the Samaritan woman,
Her words to the people she brought,
They believed not just by her telling,
But by hearing the Master they sought.
So like Paul, we preach with conviction,
Not with eloquence or worldly guise,
But with Spirit and God's holy power,
In His word, true salvation lies.
About Brandan Kraft
Brandan Kraft is a computer programmer from the Missouri Ozarks who has been writing about the sovereign grace of God since 1997. He started with a website called bornagain.net, built it into PristineGrace.org, and has published over two hundred articles, nearly sixty songs, and a growing catalog of podcasts from his living room in Ashland, Kentucky. All without permission from anyone.
He holds no seminary degree, no denominational endorsement, and no theological credentials. He has been writing software for the same employer since 1998. He thinks in systems and believes that the sharpest doctrine should produce the widest arms.
His systematic theology, A Thought in the Mind of God, derives every position from one sentence and applies it across every domain - from ontology to eschatology, from the nature of the human mind to the nature of heaven and hell. It is available at pristinegrace.org/mind.
Brandan lives in Ashland, Kentucky with his wife Angie and their son Cole. He plays trombone in the Marshall University Tri-State Brass Band and changes a diaper twice a day on a cat named OJ who was once paralyzed and whom nobody else wanted.
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