“My ears You have opened.” That the King of kings should thus come to be the Servant of servants!” So far, Psalm 40 has presented to us the Sinner’s Plea (vv 1-3), the Saint’s Praise (vv 4-5), and the Savior’s Provision (vv 6-8). Before we leave this sacred section, notice the change between the Hebrew text, “My ears You have opened” (v 6), and […]
CHRIST the PREPARER of our PLACE: George Henderson points out that the Christian is bound to heaven by eight gold links. Our Father is there: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name” (Mt 6:9). Our Savior is there: “Christ has…entered…into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us” (Heb 9:24). […]
“To Him who made great lights, for His mercy endures forever—the sun to rule by day, for His mercy endures forever; the moon and stars to rule by night, for His mercy endures forever” (Ps 136:7-9). Do you regularly express thanks to the Lord for His specific acts of creation? The psalmist did. Explaining the […]
Eric Liddell, the winner of the 400-metre race at the 1924 Paris Olympics, was a consecrated Christian. The film *Chariots of Fire* accurately recounts his refusal to run his best event, the 100-metre race, because it was on the Lord’s Day, and that someone slipped a paper to him as he stood at the starting […]
CHRIST the TESTATOR of the NEW COVENANT: “This is the covenant that I will make with them…Their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more” (Heb 10:16-17). Sheila O’Gahagan, a factory girl, broken in health, was advised to spend time at the shore. But she knew she had a deeper problem—her sin. Sitting near […]
“Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church” (Acts 12:5). Do you wonder what those prayers sounded like? Some have thought these first-century Christians didn’t really believe the Lord would deliver Peter from prison because, when he suddenly showed up at the house and “they […]
If the Bible is rooted in history, that presents a problem: how can you trust the accounts of Jesus when we now know that history is simply propaganda written by the winners? This is an increasingly popular view, especially in academia. Postmodernist historian Greg Dening argues: “History is something we make rather than something we […]
CHRIST the SON of GOD: “And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God” (Jn 1:34). While the title “Son of God” is the official way in which the Lord Jesus is designated as the true expression of God in the flesh, there are many variants of this that show the […]
“The generous soul will be made rich, and he who waters will also be watered himself” (Prov 11:25). There may be one thing better than praying for prosperity, and that is following God’s plan for it. The divine principle of prosperity is simple: You only get to keep what you give away. If you hold […]