Some say Christians must kiss their brains goodbye. Really? Haven’t they heard the first and great commandment? “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with ALL YOUR MIND, and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:30) Aren’t they familiar with so many great Christian thinkers and scientists like […]
“All I have needed Thy hand hath provided: Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me!” —T.O. Chisolm Psalm 66, in the small collection of Psalms 65-68, is not only a psalm but also a song. There are 31 “songs” in the Psalter. “Psalm” emphasizes the accompaniment, and “song” stresses the singing of the words. But obviously—as with this one—both […]
CHRIST the BELIEVER’S GAIN: “I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ” (Php 3:8). In October of 1810, twenty-year-old Ann Hasseltine wrote the following in her […]
“Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe Your commandments” (Ps 119:66). Translated literally, this verse could read, “Teach me (to have) good taste and discernment.” Adam Clarke comments: “Let me see and know the importance of Divine things, and give me a relish for them.” The airwaves in the West are full of […]
Sometimes younger believers don’t engage in witnessing because older Christians around them haven’t given them a good example. This is often true, but it is still not a good reason to be a dumb priest (see 1 Pet 2:9). If you have no good examples, then be one. Timothy, a young man, was called on […]
“This is true faith—a living confidence in the goodness of God.” —Martin Luther The soul is overwhelmed with the endless provisions that flow from the heart of Elohim. Likewise, we are amazed at David’s ability to describe these treasures lavished on us. It is right when “Praise is awaiting You, O God, in Zion” (Ps 65:1). Sadly, […]
JESUS CHRIST…TODAY (Heb 13:8). No one is ever crushed by the burden of the day. It is when we add yesterday’s failures and tomorrow’s worries to our burden today that we are immobilized. The Lord is “a very present help.” Two important facts we need fastened like frontlets to our foreheads: Christ told us, “Sufficient […]
“The beasts of the field also cry out to You, for the water brooks are dried up” (Joel 1:20). This is the closest, Joel suggests, that animals come to praying. “The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God” (Ps 104:21). In Job 38:41, it’s Jehovah, not Joel, who asks, “Who […]
William Booth (1829–1912), founder of The Salvation Army, labored for the Lord among the poor and destitute in London’s East End. He would “stumble home night after night haggard with fatigue; often his clothes were torn and bloody bandages swathed his head where a stone had struck,” wrote his wife Catherine. “‘Not called!’ did you […]