JESUS the JUST ONE: Three times in Acts our Lord is called “the Just One.” In Acts 3:14, Peter drives home the point to the assembled Jews, “You denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you.” They condemned the only truly Just One who every graced […]
“Then He said to His disciples, ‘The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest’” (Mt 9:37-38). Paul Rader (1879–1938) was a mighty evangelist for the Lord. He had spoken often to a New York banker about his soul, but […]
William Haslam (1817-1905), an Anglo-Catholic vicar, on hearing many conversion testimonies, came under deep conviction. He felt he could no longer preach. “The thought came to me that I would go to church and read the morning prayers and after that dismiss the people…The psalms and hymns were especially applicable to my case…So I gave […]
Those who risk their all on the Lord may find they lose everything only to gain everything. It was a monumental act of faith on Nehemiah’s part to ask if he might leave his post to rebuild Jerusalem’s city walls. And what sacrifice to give up the palace for the hardships that lay ahead! In […]
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CHRIST the POWER of GOD: “…Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor 1:24). A British ship landed John G. Paton and his wife Mary on Tanna Island in the southern New Hebrides (now called Vanuatu) on November 5, 1858. Armed guards stood watch while a rude hut was constructed for […]
“Yet regard the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O Lord my God, and listen to the cry and the prayer which Your servant is praying before You today: that Your eyes may be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that […]
It is natural that we should turn to the Acts of the Apostles to see how the first preachers proclaimed the gospel. We have ample evidence to go on, for no less than twenty-two sermons or speeches are recorded in that book. Of these, nine are by Peter (Acts 1:15ff; 2:14ff; 3:12ff; 4:8ff; 5:29ff; 8:20ff; […]
At a school visit the week after 9/11, an explanation was given to the students that made them think about the bigger issue. It also helps us think clearly about the turmoil in the world around us today. Don’t despair! […]