See the link between the servant’s eye and the Master’s hand, between the servant’s hand and the Master’s will. It’s one thing to come up to Jerusalem—from whatever altitude or location, one NEVER goes DOWN to Jerusalem—it’s quite another to go up to heaven. The Lord has addresses in both locations. And so the psalmist […]
The INCALCULABLE CHRIST: The gift of Christ to us is indescribable—anekdiegetos, “not able to describe or declare fully” (2 Cor 9:15) and the joy we have as a result of believing is unutterable—aneklaletos, “beyond one’s ability to divulge” (1 Pet 1:8). His ways in our lives are unsearchable—anexereunetos, with still more to know after being […]
“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly…” (Ps 1:1). In this dramatic way the Book of Psalms opens, an introduction to the whole collection. It has been pointed out that the word “blessed” (Heb, ashrei) is plural and makes an exclamation, “O the blessednesses of that man…!” So the […]
“I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications…be made for all men…For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim 2:1-4). During the English Keswick Week of 1925, Irish evangelist W.P. Nicholson […]
“One simple word to symbolize all of Jewish history…would be ‘Jerusalem.’” —Teddy Kollek Like trickles joining streams, and streams flowing into rivers, the people of God would traverse their village paths to join others from nearby towns. Greeting neighbors after long months of isolation on their little farms, they might call out, “Let us go into […]
“One simple word to symbolize all of Jewish history…would be ‘Jerusalem.’” —Teddy Kollek Like trickles joining streams, and streams flowing into rivers, the people of God would traverse their village paths to join others from nearby towns. Greeting neighbors after long months of isolation on their little farms, they might call out, “Let us go into […]
CHRIST the GLORY BEARER: “And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place…And they shall hang upon him all the glory of […]
“‘Give me a blessing; since you have given me land in the South [Negev], give me also springs of water.’ And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs” (Jdg 1:15). Today we’d say Achsah was a chip off the old block, like her father Caleb, eager to possess her possession. The word […]
How important is consistent Christian testimony to effective gospel witness. In Chartist times (a Victorian era workplace reform movement), people often labored in little hovels for a mere pittance. W. Y. Fullerton tells of a Christian in the market town of Kettering, England, who worked his knitting machine in a little lean-to behind a grocer’s […]