Just because you can’t get hills and rivers to respond when you speak, it doesn’t mean the Creator can’t! Psalm 114 is such a happy little psalm, you can hardly keep from smiling. It really reads like a children’s book. Almost everything is personified. Starting with verse 3, it all seems obvious. But don’t miss […]
CHRIST the MOTIVATOR: “For the love of Christ compels us” (2 Cor 5:14). Dr Helen Roseveare, medical missionary to the Congo, met the Lord personally at the age of 20 during a student retreat. She gave her testimony on the final evening, and Bible teacher Graham Scroggie wrote Philippians 3:10 in her Bible, and told […]
“There is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim 2:5). Long before, Job wrote, “For He is not a man, as I am,… Nor is there any mediator between us, who may lay his hand on us both” (9:32-33). But the Great Bridge Builder had already planned […]
As a boy, I loved good Christian biographies. One day I found my father’s copy of Archibald Glover’s massive “A 1000 Miles of Miracle in China,” It is a must-read for serious saints. It tells the harrowing, miraculous story of some CIM missionaries fleeing the Boxers who were intent on killing “the foreign devils.” One […]
This past Saturday was to be a big race at Charlotte Motor Speedway for Kyle Busch. The winningest driver in NASCAR history was preparing for it not by hurtling down a track at breakneck speed but by sitting in a racing simulator. Sadly, a case of pneumonia turned septic, and within hours he was dead […]
“In loftiest songs of sweetest praise, We would to everlasting days, Make all His glories known.” —S. Medley The next six psalms (113-118) are treated almost as one by the Jewish people, called the Egyptian Hallel (from halal, “praise”). This name is derived from the beginning of Psalm 114, “When Israel went out of Egypt.” Alfred Edersheim says […]
THE LOWLY JESUS: “I am…lowly” (Mt 11:29). Here are statements made by and about the Lord Jesus during His earthly sojourn that show His amazing humility. As to His career path, they said with derision, “Is this not the carpenter?” (Mk 6:3), but He explained, “I am among you as the One who serves” (Lk […]
“I am Your servant; give me understanding, that I may know Your testimonies” (Ps 119:125). Verses 129-130 add: “Your testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them. The entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.” The word “testimonies” is one of eight words used in this psalm to describe the […]
There is today a pale, pathetic, and unflinching interpretation of the blessed gospel, which guarantees salvation as “a financially and socially upgrading experience”; then it finalizes the offer by “a superlative bonus in eternity and comfort world without end.” How different was Paul’s concept of a disciple of Christ! Look at his vivid interpretation: “I […]