“When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.” —Samuel Rutherford In hard times I may think, “Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen,” but here’s the fact: “No temptation has seized you except what is common to man” (1 Cor 10:13, BSB). You’ve never been tackled by a problem that someone […]
CHRIST the ETERNAL LIFE: “The Life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that Eternal Life which was with the Father and was manifested to us” (1 Jn 1:2). We have no life independent of Christ—He is our life (Col 3:4)! He is the WORD of Life (Jn 1:1) […]
“Redeem me from the oppression of man, that I may keep Your precepts” (Ps 119:134). Have you ever thought of this? What does it mean to be redeemed from the oppression of man? It’s not easy obeying the Lord’s directives. And one reason, says David, is that every day we seem to “run the gauntlet.” […]
Hypocrisy is the great impediment in evangelism. Our Lord prayed that His people might be marked by reality. “Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy word is truth” (Jn 17:17). A.W. Tozer writes: Truth, to be understood, must be lived. Bible doctrine is wholly ineffective until it has been digested and assimilated by the total life. […]
The old preachers would say, “God is not impoverished by giving nor enriched by withholding.” So ask! Breathe in. Breathe out. Here’s the secret of healthy living. But for us it’s breathing out to God in prayer and breathing in heaven’s truth in His Word. While Psalm 119 is known for the theme of the […]
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CHRIST the MERCIFUL: “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance” (Mt 9:13). “It comes to this, my dear friends: He is dying there because of His love for you, His love for me, His love for […]
“That which has been is what will be, that which is done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun” (Eccl 1:9). In this age of moral relativism, there is a popular notion afoot: “No man ever steps in the same river twice.” But that quotation is its own refutation, […]
Peter Waldo (c. 1140 – c. 1218) lived in the darkest days of the Dark Ages. A wealthy merchant of Lyon, Waldo was enjoying dinner with friends one evening when one of them suddenly fell lifeless to the floor. This was such a shock that he abandoned his occupation, giving his attention completely to the […]
JESUS the GIFT of GOD: “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” (2 Cor 9:15). Adoniram Judson laid the foundation for a remarkable work of God in Burma. But as a young man he fell into Deism (God as absentee landlord) in college under the influence of a fellow student, Jacob Eames. But upon […]