“O worship the King all-glorious above, O gratefully sing His power and His love” —Robert Grant We began our study of the breathtaking portrait of the King of kings in Psalm 72, noticing that Stanza 1 (vv 1-4) speaks of The King’s Righteous Reign. Stanza 2 (vv 5-7) presents The King’s Eternal Reign. Now Stanza 3 (vv […]
JESUS the FRIEND of ENEMIES: “But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you” (Mt 5:44). Mitsuo Fuchida, the Japanese commander who led the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, sat […]
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all” (2 Cor 13:14). Only the Lord knows how many times this request has been borrowed to pray over the people of God. And no wonder! It is marked by succinctness, being just […]
In Good News is for Sharing, Leighton Ford recounts: “I was speaking at an open-air crusade in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Billy Graham was to speak the next night and had arrived a day early. He came incognito and sat on the grass at the rear of the crowd. Because he was wearing a hat and […]
He’s King of Israel, King of the Ages, King of Saints, King of Righteousness & Peace, and King of kings. We mentioned earlier that Psalm 71 could be titled, “A Prayer For Old Age,” and that Psalm 72 might be “A Prayer From Old Age.” There’s no mention of the psalmist’s advancing years in Psalm 72, as in the […]
CHRIST SUPREMELY ABLE: “‘Do you believe that I am able to do this?’ They said to Him, ‘Yes, Lord” (Mt 9:26). “…He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them” (Heb 7:25). “Now to Him who is able to […]
“O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty like You, O Lord? Your faithfulness also surrounds You. You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, You still them” (Ps 89:8-9). Here’s an idea that can change our whole perspective on life. The same God rules the raging of, and speaks His stillness […]
“The scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge” (Prov 1:22). “The new rebel,” writes G.K. Chesterton, “is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything…the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the […]
In the autumn of 1860, with war looming, America was in turmoil. Many Wisconsin residents had journeyed to Chicago for a Stephen A. Douglas rally to consider the issues of the day. Just before midnight on September 7, a palatial side-wheel steamboat named the Lady Elgin left Chicago bound for Milwaukee with about 400 attendees […]