If you find a distance between your soul and God, there’s no question as to who moved. So far, we have considered the biographical backdrop to Psalm 34, the rising tide of praise from David, and those hearing him who join in to “exalt His name together” (v 3, see also vv 1-2). Then in cryptic terms, […]
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CHRIST our SCAPE-GOAT. The Septuagint translates the verses about the azazel or scape-goat as follows: “Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord, and offer it as a sin offering; but the goat on which the lot of the sent away one fell shall be presented alive before the Lord […]
“Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for You are my praise” (Jer 17:14). This world has all sorts of disease and danger. At the spring of them all is the selfish pride that brought the universe to moral collapse. When Paul called himself the chief […]
George Whitfield, who preached more than 18,000 times, was one of the most widely recognized public figures in colonial America. During the Great Awakening of 1740, he was addressing a large open-air meeting from the words, “And the door was shut” (Mt 25:10). A young man in the audience, standing not far from the preacher, […]
If there’s one thing we learn from detective novelists, it’s that there are endless ways to shuffle off this mortal coil, as Hamlet would say. But even they would be unwilling to use these stranger-than-fiction departures in their books. On July 25, 1911, American stunt performer Bobby Leach was the first man to successfully go over […]
Does the Lord deliver us even when our troubles are our own fault? Don’t you like that word ALL? We have seen the dark backdrop from the life of David in 1 Samuel 21. The story is cryptically portrayed in Psalm 34:4-7. “This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out […]
CHRIST OUR SHILOH: Christ is the PEACE-BRINGER for He is the promised Shiloh, “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between His feet, until Shiloh come; and to Him shall the gathering of the people be” (Gen 49:10). He is the PEACE-MAKER, for He “made peace through the blood of His […]
“Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me! For my soul trusts in You; and in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge, until these calamities have passed by” (Ps 57:1). Richard Cecil (1748–1810) was a leading British Evangelical and friend of John Newton. Wishing to teach his daughter trust […]
Your humanity is at stake; the souls of the unsaved are at stake. The sinner saved by grace is not only a person who is heartbroken over his own sins. But he is also heartbroken over the sins and present destiny of those around him: “Rivers of water run down from my eyes, because men […]