“Assailed by scandal and the tongue of strife, Our only answer is the blameless life.” —Wm. Cowper You can’t read many psalms without realizing we’re in a battle and our souls are the prize for which the enemy combatants fight. Psalm 64 is no different. There are two distinct approaches of the enemy. In one […]
CHRIST, REVEALER of the FATHER: “I have glorified You on the earth” (Jn 17:4). How the Lord Jesus wanted His followers to know and love His Father! He explained that believers’ prayers are not—as many pagan religions teach—an attempt to bend natural law by influencing the Creator. “When you pray,” instructed the Lord Jesus, “say, […]
“Please, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to the Lord your God, …that the Lord your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing we should do” (Jer 42:2-3). Rowland Bingham, involved in the early days of the Sudan Interior Mission, soon discovered why […]
“I being in the way, the Lord led me” (Gen 24:27). I was packing for a coastal boat trip in Iceland. With a prayer for guidance, I was selecting some leaflets that explained God’s good news when my eye fell on some French ones. I took them with me…After steaming round the coast for some […]
It often seems like a rocky road to glory. But some of those circumstances that the enemy uses to try and trip us up can be changed to help us up. God leads the way, and He’s great at clearing the path for us too. […]
When your body argues that there’s no good reason to continue, call on your spirit. It agrees with God. 1419. Is it possible to be a lush garden, full of fragrance and fruit—in a desert? Psalm 63 says, “Yes!” Penned while David “was in the wilderness of Judah” (title), he describes the secret of a flourishing soul. […]
CHRIST a PLANT of RENOWN (Ezek 34:29). Christianity is eternity in time. With the appearance of Christ a new sprig was planted into the withered ground of the world of man. And all who have been grafted into it have become partakers of eternal life. Thus Christians have found the fountain of eternal youth. The […]
“Restore us, O God; cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved!” (Ps 80:3). Sanctification: the process by which weak, failing children of God are progressively conformed to be like the perfect Son of God. Henry Drummond writes: “Shall a mechanical experiment succeed infallibly and the one vital experiment of humanity remain a […]
The message we preach is “the gospel of the grace of God” (Acts 20:24) for now grace reigns in life and through righteousness (Rom 5:17, 21). It is “the gospel of His Son” (Rom 1:9) for God gave His only Son that He might bring many sons to glory (Heb 2:10). It is also “the […]