The Lord blessed my wife and I with seven children. It’s easy enough to talk theoretically about how many children we’d like to have, as if selecting what size caffè latte I need to jump-start my morning. But once we have them, know them, love them, which ones would we send back? I suppose we’re part […]
One of the “marvelous things” God has done is to offer salvation to “the ends of the earth” (Ps 98:1, 3). I hope you don’t find this repeated pattern of praise boring. Like these seven festal psalms, I have seven children. When a special day comes, each one expresses love to me. No doubt there’s some repetition. Do I […]
JESUS the FAMILY MAN: “I and the children whom God has given Me” (Heb 2:13). William Grimshaw (1708–1763) was ordained many years before he was saved. A “blind leader of the blind,” he was eventually brought to Christ through the death of his wife. Then, “with a slice of bread and an onion for his […]
“Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O Lord…” (Ps 119:108). Hosea calls them “the calves of our lips” (14:2). Why the NKJV changes the Hebrew par (meaning “calf” or “young bull”) to “sacrifice” is beyond me. A similar idea is found in Hebrews 13:15, “Therefore by Him let us continually offer the […]
Joseph Tremblay of Quebec, ordained a priest in Rome, was serving in Chile, where, he writes, “One Sunday I chose as my theme: ‘Religious Hypocrisy,’ and used the text: ‘Not every one that says to Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven…I will profess to them, I never knew you; depart from […]
“Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. Rejoice in the Lord” (Ps 97:11-12). This delightful collection of songs for feast days (Ps 93, 95-100) are sometimes called the Theocratic Psalms because they are all about the Lord reigning—and the fact that we should be very happy about it! You […]
CHRIST the One to SEE: Six looks at the Lord Jesus Christ will get us all the way! From lost to saved: “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” (Jn 1:29). From death’s despair to resurrection hope: “Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself” (Lk […]
“I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food” (Job 23:12). Henry B. Gibbud, evangelist and superintendent of several rescue missions on the U.S. East Coast, liked to tell of the poor lad who attended a school in the lower East Side of New York City. He was very fond of […]
Here are three prayers that, if prayed believingly, would revolutionize the work of the gospel in our areas. First, “Lord…send forth laborers!” (Lk 10:2). Of course, this means we must be prepared to be sent ourselves, and to support those whom the Lord sends in answer to our prayer. Then we need to ask, “Lord, […]