Author: Bill Nicholson
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October 10 Petition Mission
“I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you” (2 Ki 20:5). It doesn’t seem that Hezekiah prayed for a longer life, although that goes without saying if the Lord healed him! But 15 years extra? Some think he shouldn’t have asked for more time on earth because during […]
October 10
Hy Pickering, born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, was raised in a religious home, but after being christened and confirmed, found he had not been converted. Not far from where he lived, some meeting began in a barn. He said the preacher “made no pretense at eloquence, wore no surplice, used no notes, and feared no man. The […]
October 10, 2024 — Finally…
Tending sheep, he killed a lion; delivering victuals, he fought a giant; serving God, he found greatness. We’re about to say goodbye to David, at least in this historical account. “Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. And the period that he reigned…was forty years…So he died in a good old age, full […]
October 9 Petition Mission
“Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you’” (Heb 13:5). In our verse, discontentment is seen in a glaring light. The things we “have” obviously include the One who is everything we could ever need and […]
October 9
It was Blaise Pascal who said: “Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; we do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ.” At the Cross we find both revealed. God’s love, mercy and justice respond to the sinner and his sin. Look at what Christ did to reconcile us to […]
October 9, 2024 — Solomon Crowned
Our theology should always culminate in doxology, God’s revealing in our reveling in Him. In this brief passage (1 Chron 29:21-25) about Solomon’s second coronation (v 22), we see nothing of the earlier palace intrigue when Adonijah attempted to steal the crown from his brother, of Joab and Abiathar’s betrayal, or of Bathsheba’s awkward appeal […]
October 8 Petition Mission
“Please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant which I pray before You now,…and confess the sins of the children of Israel which we have sinned against You” (Neh 1:6). One mark of spiritual maturity is to shoulder the failures of your people. Adrian […]
October 8
George Whitfield (1714-1770), who was used by God to spread the Great Awakening, became perhaps the best-known preacher in Britain and America in the 18th century. In May of 1750, after hearing Whitfield preach, John Thorpe and three friends attended a local “Hell-Fire Club,” an atheists’ gathering. To amuse his friends, with amazing accuracy Thorpe […]