“All things are mortal but the Jew…What is the secret of his immortality?” —Mark Twain The first theme of Psalm 118 (vv 5-21) either describes a person, or Israel personified, being rescued by the Lord. Why would we think it’s the nation being featured? First, the call is to Israel to be thankful (v 2). […]
CHRIST the LOVER of WHOEVER: “Whosoever believes in Him should not perish” (Jn 3:15): Mary McLeod, 15th of 17 children, was the daughter of ex-slaves so poor the children pulled the plows. When a mission school opened nearby, Sam McLeod asked God to help him select one child to go, all he could afford. Mary […]
“Now while Ezra was praying, and while he was confessing, weeping, and bowing down before the house of God, a very large assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept very bitterly” (Ezra 10:1). This hardly seems the path to popularity! Confessing? Don’t you lose your status and […]
D.L. Moody paid nine visits to the Civil War battlefront. One evening past midnight, he was called to visit a dying soldier. “He said, ‘I wish you to help me to die.’ ‘I would help you if I could,’ replied Moody. ‘I would take you on my shoulders and carry you into the kingdom if […]
We’re very grateful for the life and ministry of John Lennox. Here’s a story from his recently released Autobiography to enjoy. […]
“I will praise You, for You have answered me, and have become my salvation” (Ps 118:21). We have come to the last psalm of the Egyptian Hallel, sung by the Jewish people at the conclusion of the Passover celebration. We can hardly expect to be dry-eyed as we imagine an Upper Room, a handful of men […]
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CHRIST the OUTPOURING: “He poured out His soul unto death” (Isa 53:12). When Christ “emptied Himself” (kenoo, Php 2:7), who received the outflow of this fullness? We know the answer: “of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace” (Jn 1:16). If we can truly hear what Paul tells the Ephesians, we should […]
“Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, and how small a whisper we hear of Him!” (Job 26:14). The theater of Aspendos is one of the best-preserved in the Roman world. Built from 161-169 AD in Lycia (modern Turkey), an area visited briefly by Luke and Paul as recorded in Acts 27, the […]
Charles Darwin wrote: “To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree” (Origin of Species, 1859, […]