Why?
We don’t always see the end game in the tragedies of life. “Why?” often hangs there unanswered. But faith discovers the answer here and there–enough to trust God for the rest. […]
Author: Bill Nicholson
Posts by Bill Nicholson
October 4 Petition Mission
“Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You” (Jn 17:1). We know from our daily lives that there are two distinct ideas about time: the passage of time and a point in time. The Greeks had the same idea. Chronos gave its name to chronological time, and kairos […]
October 4
I was standing with some Christians in a small antiquities shop hard by the ancient pool of Siloam. The clerk, a Muslim, had been spoken to about the Lord Jesus, and in defense had launched into his own “personal testimony” of his conversion to Islam, a borrowed rendition from previous Christians who had witnessed to […]
October 4, 2024 — The Solemn Charge
Knowing God’s plan is essential. Planning brings the future into the present so we can act wisely. All these people we’ve been reading about? Here they are at the capital for the Big Event: “all the leaders…the officers…the captains…and the stewards…with the officials, the valiant men, and all the mighty men of valor” (1 Chron 28:1). Quite […]
What’s Up? Heaven, Of Course
Who doesn’t enjoy strolling through an award-winning garden or touring historic mansions like Vizcaya in Coconut Grove, Hearst Castle at San Simeon, or the du Pont Chateaux in the Brandywine Valley—all the time thankful you don’t pay for the upkeep! Could I invite you on a tour of the most magnificent Home & Gardens ever […]
October 3 Petition Mission
“My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed, and in Your book they all were written” (Ps 139:15-16). How well do people around us really know us? How well do we know […]
October 3
How do you respond to someone who says: “I’d like to be a Christian but I don’t think I can live that kind of life”? Robert J. Little responds, “Christians are not expected to live the Christian life in their own strength. No one could do this. Part of the experience of conversion to Christ […]
October 3, 2024 — Working For The King
“Whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name…will by no means lose his reward” (Mk 9:41). You know when you make a chart, and some things don’t fit any category? That may be 1 Chronicles 27:25-34! This is the column marked “Other.” It includes all sorts of responsible people from “Obil the Ishmaelite…over […]
October 2 Petition Mission
“Now while Ezra was praying, and while he was confessing, weeping, and bowing down before the house of God, a very large assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept very bitterly” (Ezra 10:1). This hardly seems the path to popularity! Confessing? Don’t you lose your status and […]