“Relying on God” wrote C.S. Lewis, is “to start all over every day, as if nothing has yet been done.” Have you heard of an antimetabole? No, it’s not an ancient sea creature or a newly-discovered subatomic particle. It’s “a rhetorical technique of reversing word order in successive clauses.” Here’s a famous one. “It’s not the […]
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“We pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God” (2 Cor 5:20, KJV). Harry Ironside tells of visiting an emaciated hospital patient who was nearing death: “I told him I was anxious to know how he stood as to the matter of his soul’s salvation. ‘Oh,’ was the reply, ‘I’m all right as […]
Let others keep quiet about hell if they wish—I dare not. I see it plainly in Scripture, and I must speak about it. What would you say about the man who saw his neighbor’s house burning and never raised the cry of “Fire”? Call it bad taste, if you like, to speak about hell. Call […]
“And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him…But He answered her not a word” (Mt 15:22-23). It is evident that at no time in the progress of this experience did Jesus mean to refuse this woman’s plea. His cold silence was not denial. His apparent refusal was not […]
Didn’t Jesus receive a sinful nature through His mother Mary? Mary was not “immaculately conceived” in her mother’s womb. The Bible does not teach this; Mary knew she needed a Savior (Lk 1:47). Besides, this doesn’t solve the problem—it only moves it back one generation. Human reasoning will always leave us with Job’s question: “Who […]
“Making mention of you always in my prayers…that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus” (Phm vv 4-6). Rodney (Gypsy) Smith was born in a Romani tent in Epping Forest, northeast of London. He never attended one day of school, […]
When I look over an audience and think of the misery that you and I do not see, that He does see, I think I understand what it means, “When He saw the multitude, He was moved with compassion” (Mt 9:36). We ought to have more compassion. How many times I have had to upbraid […]
It’s 8600 miles as the crow flies from Montevideo, Uruguay to Little Rock, Arkansas. Assuming crows fly that route. But God brought a man that far for a reason very different from the one he thought he was there. (repost) […]
“Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised” (Prov 31:30, BSB). Highlighted in the list of Job’s blessings we have the birth of three daughters. Of the ten former and ten latter children, these are the only ones named. There must be a good reason. “He also […]
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