It’s an old wag’s line: denial isn’t just a river in Egypt. But sometimes we deny the Egypt-like influence of the world around us. In the end, this world is nothing but a graveyard. With the Egyptians of old, it all ended in the world’s fanciest graves. But we have been set free from all […]
No animal at the same time could be a sweet savor, and non-savor, offering. But Christ is all in all! In our meditations on Psalm 40, we briefly considered the Sinner’s Plea (vv 1-3) and the Saint’s Praise (vv 4-5). We now move to the heart of the psalm. Without this, there would be no help, no hope. Here […]
CHRIST the only DOOR: “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved” (Jn 10:9). Charles Berry, an English Congregationalist preacher, for some time served in the milltown of Bolton, Lancashire. One evening he was accosted by a young girl on the street, her cheeks wet with tears. “You a minister?” […]
“O Lord, I have heard Your speech and was afraid; O Lord, revive Your work in the midst of the years! In the midst of the years make it known… Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields yield […]
If God made everything, who made God? John Lennox responds: “One of the central arguments of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins’ book, is the famous school-boy argument, ‘If we believe in a Creator, we’ll have to ask: Who created the Creator?’ But if you ask, ‘Who created God?’ you are thinking of created gods. Now […]
When I trust the Lord, my blessed life becomes evidence to encourage many others to trust Him, too. Who could ever tire of reading the 40th Psalm? It is, in its seven movements, the Grand Story of Redemption. Here is a suggested outline. First, we have the Sinner’s Plea. Oh what grace for Jehovah to bend […]
JESUS the JUST ONE: Three times in Acts our Lord is called “the Just One.” In Acts 3:14, Peter drives home the point to the assembled Jews, “You denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you.” They condemned the only truly Just One who every graced […]
“Then He said to His disciples, ‘The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest’” (Mt 9:37-38). Paul Rader (1879–1938) was a mighty evangelist for the Lord. He had spoken often to a New York banker about his soul, but […]
William Haslam (1817-1905), an Anglo-Catholic vicar, on hearing many conversion testimonies, came under deep conviction. He felt he could no longer preach. “The thought came to me that I would go to church and read the morning prayers and after that dismiss the people…The psalms and hymns were especially applicable to my case…So I gave […]