“The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God’s will.” —George Washington Here’s some good news! “Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord commanded them; for the Lord had accepted Job” (Job 42:9). After all the fussing and fuming, with no arguments now, they […]
“My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips. When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches” (Ps 63:5-6). “One night alone in prayer,” writes C.H. Spurgeon, “might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to […]
Mel Trotter, who founded 66 rescue missions in key cities across the U.S., wrote: “I didn’t get a very good start in the first place; my job was tending bar in my father’s saloon. Booze got the best of me pretty early in life, and before I was twenty years old I was the common […]
“Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you” (Mt 17:20). Burma’s intrepid pioneer missionary, Adoniram Judson (1788–1850), wrote: “‘Nothing is impossible to industry,’ said one of the seven […]
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee” (Ps 119:11). My Bible teaches that if a man can bridle his tongue, he can bridle his whole body (see Jas 3:2). That was one of the first lessons I learned in my Christian life… My tongue began to be […]
“But Hannah answered and said, ‘…I am a woman of sorrowful spirit. I have…poured out my soul before the Lord’.…And Hannah prayed and said: ‘My heart rejoices in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord. I smile at my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation’” (1 Sam 1:15; 2:1). If Hannah’s prayer […]
“Pray for them…” (Mt 5:44). A survey prepared at Fuller Seminary was taken of 750 Muslims from 30 countries who had received the Lord Jesus. Here are the top five reasons that these Muslim considered Christ. 1. A true Christian lifestyle, a consistent testimony, the love Christians showed, plus respectful treatment of women. 2. The […]
Everybody has difficulty in seeing the truth of the gospel. It’s hard to believe not only that I’m a sinner, but a sinner guilty of the death of Jesus! And not only that, but incorrigibly sinful, hopelessly unable to fix myself! But the Bible tells us that Jewish people have an added problem: there’s a […]
The Lord wants us to get it: get things right, get past our problems, and then get on with living life to the full. We haven’t heard about Job’s three friends for some time, but evidently they stayed around to hear Elihu, and then the Lord Himself, speak. “And so it was, after the Lord had […]