If “the redemption of their souls is costly” (Ps 49:8), who can calculate the waste of a soul lost forever? As we read Psalm 49, we may have come upon the Preacher’s text. Was Solomon reading this as he penned Ecclesiastes? There he warns: If our Creator is ignored, all will be “vanity” (Eccl 2:1). The psalmist wants a […]
CHRIST who MEETS OUR NEEDS: “But my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Php 4:19). Riches in glory by Christ Jesus? For me? Then what need can Christ meet in your life today and, by this, glorify Himself? An author tells of waiting in his car […]
“Let Your mercies come also to me, O Lord—Your salvation according to Your word. So shall I have an answer for him who reproaches me, for I trust in Your word” (Ps 119:41-42). How true this is! The Lord’s saving mercies become an apologetic to convince others of the truth of the Word and the […]
I had a long wait leaving Prescott, Arizona, but finally the right man came along. “I don’t know why I stopped,” he said. “You’re the first man I’ve ever picked up.” “Perhaps the Lord had something to do with it,” I replied. When I asked if he would like to be saved and know it, […]
JESUS, FRIEND of SINNERS: “The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’” (Lk 7:34). Their bitterest words turned sweet in the presence of the Lord Jesus. Clearly He is the world’s Best Friend. “Greater love has no one […]
“Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem” (Ezra 7:27). Ezra was flabbergasted that a Gentile king would want to participate in restoring the Lord’s temple. He had been given a blank […]
“In the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be self lovers, money lovers,…pleasure lovers and no God lovers; having a form of godliness, but denying its power” (2 Tim 3:1-5). Who are the people we meet every day? George Barna writes: “The most quoted ‘Bible verse’ in America is: ‘God helps those […]
CHRIST the PRAYER INSTRUCTOR: “Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples’” (Lk 11:1). Sir Thomas Abney, knighted by William III, was one of the original Directors of […]
“Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it” (Ps 127:1). The Hebrew words ben (son), bath (daughter), and beith (house) all come from the same root banah, “to build.” The West seems to have forgotten that families are the building blocks of a nation. And the notion that the Lord […]