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 […]
CHRIST in the KNOW: “His disciples said to Him, ‘See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech! Now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this we believe that You came forth from God’” (Jn 16:29-30). What was it that […]
“We remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise’” (Mt 27:63). “When He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered…” (Jn 2:22). His enemies remembered after He died, but His disciples didn’t remember until after He rose! J.K. Johnston tells a story about a town that […]
Historian Arnold Toynbee, in an essay titled Christianity and Civilization, presented at Oxford University, said: “Democracy is another leaf from the book of Christianity, which has also, I fear, been torn out and, while perhaps not misread, has certainly been half emptied of meaning by being divorced from its Christian context and secularized; and we […]
I’ve got it, but I still don’t get it. What have I got? Salvation from all my sins — past, present, and future. (Acts 13:38-39) A home in heaven when I die. (John 14:2-3) Jesus as my traveling companion through life. (Hebrews 13:5-6) All the riches God has, free for the asking. (Romans 8:32) Membership […]