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My Friend Psycho
Beaten. Broken. Bitter. The hard road had made him so hard, even his fellow prisoners called him “Psycho.” What could Christ do with a wreck like that? […]Read More… from My Friend Psycho
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May 9, 2025 — O No!
“I will say of the Lord, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in Him I will trust’” (Ps 91:2). It has been said that if the enemy isn’t bothering you, you mustn’t be doing anything worth bothering. Well, Nehemiah noticed that those walls were certainly bothering “Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest…
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May 9
CHRIST the FINISHER: “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith” (Heb 12:2). The Lord Jesus will finish in us what He began (Php 1:6). On September 4, 1869, at age 37, Hudson Taylor found a letter waiting for him from John McCarthy, a fellow missionary. His life was transformed by the truth…
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May 9 Petition Mission
“Help me, O Lord my God! Oh, save me according to Your mercy” (Ps 109:26). My father’s family lived in coal mining country in Lanarkshire, Scotland. My great-grandfather often brought the gospel into the mines by volunteering to work a shift for one of the miners who was unable to work. I heard of one…
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May 9
Sanctification comes from the same root meaning as holiness. In its primary sense, it means to be different, then to be set apart, then to be wholly for God, and finally that process by which those who have been declared right shall be made right. “By that will we have been sanctified through the offering…
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May 8, 2025 — Mission Accomplished
Is there a God-honoring objective? A plan to take you there? A commitment to follow through? The issue at hand was too serious to leave to their whims. Nehemiah wanted their verbal agreement memorialized in a vow. “Then I called the priests, and required an oath from them that they would do according to this promise” (Neh…