When I trust the Lord, my blessed life becomes evidence to encourage many others to trust Him, too. Who could ever tire of reading the 40th Psalm? It is, in its seven movements, the Grand Story of Redemption. Here is a suggested outline. First, we have the Sinner’s Plea. Oh what grace for Jehovah to bend […]
JESUS the JUST ONE: Three times in Acts our Lord is called “the Just One.” In Acts 3:14, Peter drives home the point to the assembled Jews, “You denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you.” They condemned the only truly Just One who every graced […]
“Then He said to His disciples, ‘The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest’” (Mt 9:37-38). Paul Rader (1879–1938) was a mighty evangelist for the Lord. He had spoken often to a New York banker about his soul, but […]
William Haslam (1817-1905), an Anglo-Catholic vicar, on hearing many conversion testimonies, came under deep conviction. He felt he could no longer preach. “The thought came to me that I would go to church and read the morning prayers and after that dismiss the people…The psalms and hymns were especially applicable to my case…So I gave […]
Sometimes we settle for a band-aid solution in life instead of letting the Lord excise the whole problem. We noticed that Psalm 39 is sectioned into three by two Selahs (Stop, Examine Life, And Hear). The first part (vv 1-5) begins with David’s inward frustrations being replaced when he refocuses on the Lord and his own life. Now the second part […]
CHRIST the POWER of GOD: “…Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor 1:24). A British ship landed John G. Paton and his wife Mary on Tanna Island in the southern New Hebrides (now called Vanuatu) on November 5, 1858. Armed guards stood watch while a rude hut was constructed for […]
“Yet regard the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O Lord my God, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today: that Your eyes may be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that […]
It is natural that we should turn to the Acts of the Apostles to see how the first preachers proclaimed the gospel. We have ample evidence to go on, for no less than twenty-two sermons or speeches are recorded in that book. Of these, nine are by Peter (Acts 1:15ff; 2:14ff; 3:12ff; 4:8ff; 5:29ff; 8:20ff; […]
In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick proposed the double helix structure of DNA for which they won the Nobel Prize in 1962. The discovery was based on work by chemist Rosalind Franklin for which she received little credit. But on November 6, Watson met DNA’s Designer. It must have been quite a shock since […]