“I will meditate on Your precepts, and contemplate Your ways. I will delight myself in Your statutes” (Ps 119:15-16). We know why there are 22 sections of verses in Psalm 119, because the sections represent the 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet. But why eight verses in each section? Numbers have significance in all areas of […]
JESUS the PATIENT FARMER: “Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors” (Jn 4:38). Almost every Christian has heard about Hudson Taylor, who blazed a trail for God through China. China Inland Mission brought over 800 missionaries to the country. But few have heard of Karl Gützlaff. Born to a German tailor, his […]
“Please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now,…and confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You” (Neh 1:6). One mark of spiritual maturity is to shoulder the failures of your people. Adrian […]
George Whitfield (1714-1770), who was used by God to spread the Great Awakening, became perhaps the best-known preacher in Britain and America in the 18th century. In May of 1750, after hearing Whitfield preach, John Thorpe and three friends attended a local “Hell-Fire Club,” an atheists’ gathering. To amuse his friends, with amazing accuracy Thorpe […]
This fascinating psalm is like looking at the telescope as well as through it—the words in the Word. Eight different words are used as synonyms for the Bible in Psalm 119, although each has a slightly different flavor. Dābār is often translated “ways,” and is the most general term for God’s truth, whether stated, promised, or commanded. Found in 32 verses, […]
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CHRIST DESERVES OUR LOVE: “Do you love Me?” (Jn 21:17). This is the story of an assembly immersed in love. Paul reports: “I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints” (Eph 1:15). He reminded them that “God…is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which […]
“Who is a God like You, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in mercy. He will again have compassion on us, and will subdue our iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea” […]
No man is greater than his prayer life. The preacher who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be the shop window to display one’s talents; the prayer closet allows for no showing off. Poverty-stricken as the Church is today in many things, she is most […]
The world is up for grabs. Is China the next superpower? Will international cartels run the show? Maybe the machines will take over! Despots have always dreamed of worldwide conquest. The Assyrians under Nebuchadnezzar, the first true military superpower, stretched from Egypt to the Persian Gulf. Then came the Medo-Persians under Cyrus, his empire encompassing […]