Success is not the key to happiness. As David explains, true happiness is one of the keys to success. Bookstores are full of titles like “3 Things Successful People Do” and “The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People.” Psalm 108 beats them all. David went from an unknown shepherd to the world’s best-known king. He […]
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JESUS RULER OF ALL: We are told that God “will manifest in His own time, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords” (1 Tim 6:15). What a discovery that will be to the unbelieving world, that Jesus is “the ruler over the kings of the earth” (Rev […]
“I called on the Lord in distress; the Lord answered me…” (Ps 118:5). The Clapham Sect, prominent evangelicals, united to seek the abolition of the slave trade and press gangs, the reform of the penal system, improvements in the care of the mentally ill, the regulation of factory conditions, and the promotion of schools in […]
Two great sins are marked out in Scripture by other sinners being threatened with having “their portion with hypocrites” (Mt 24:51), and that God “will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers” (Lk 12:46). Who can say which is greater? Certainly the Lord reserved His most scathing words for hypocrites. As He said, “Woe to […]
It’s true the Lord rescued them from their distress, but He actually rescued them by their distress, too. It’s Psalm 107 in crisis! We need a wilderness extraction (vv 4-9), a jail break (vv 10-16), a medical miracle (vv 17-22), and a rescue at sea (vv 23-32). All in a day’s work for the Lord! Do you have any […]
CHRIST the PEACEMAKER: “My peace I give you; not as the world gives…” (Jn 14:27). During her second year in Yangchen, Gladys Aylward, a London parlor maid who went to China in 1930, was summoned by the Mandarin. A riot had broken out in the prison. She found the soldiers afraid to intervene. The warden […]
“Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God” (Col 4:12). Now that’s a prayer request! F.B. Meyer wrote: “Amid all the crowding interests of Epaphras’s visit to Rome, his heart was […]
James M. Gray, longtime Dean at Moody Bible Institute, tells his story: “I regularly attended church. At 14, when I knew ‘the creed, the Lord’s Prayer, and the ten commandments’ I was ‘confirmed in the most holy faith’ by a bishop of our church, and was taught that I had become a child of God. […]
How desperate do some people need to be before they cry out to the Lord? Really desperate, it seems. We begin Book V of the Psalter with a thriller! It’s the tale of four rescues. God is the ultimate EMT. The byline reads, “Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand […]