Category: Articles by Carl Knott

  • Triple Security, by Carl Knott

    Ecclesiastes 3:14 declares, “I know that whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever; nothing can be put to it nor anything taken from it…”  A principle is stated here about the quality of God’s work: it is forever and completely sufficient. If we apply this to the subject of salvation, we…

  • The Christian Family, by Carl Knott

    The name “Christian” does not mean much in the world anymore, except maybe “not Buddhist” or “not Muslim,” or something like that. But taking its original and long forgotten meaning, “Christ-one,” a follower of Jesus Christ, we ask, “What makes a family a Christian family?” How can we tell one…

  • Saving Grace and Serving Grace, by Carl Knott

    Grace is God’s unmerited favor and help. I started learning about it early in life, but school isn’t out yet. My godly grandfather etched the words of the hymn “Amazing Grace” into my memory by frequently humming, whistling or singing that hymn, his favorite, in his home, in the car,…

  • Pleasing God, by Carl Knott

     “For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ” (Galatians 1:10). Most people live to please themselves, even among evangelicals. The lament of the Apostle Paul is even truer today: “all…

  • Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels, by Carl Knott

    “Don’t take any wooden nickels!” That’s the way they used to say it in the old days, when some people did actually make wooden imitations of nickels to pass as counterfeit money, thus the saying, which today if used at all, simply means: “don’t be fooled.” The Scriptures say: “Be…