The most important thing? Make sure that the most important thing remains the most important thing. First things first, they say. How would you begin a book about the most important Person in the universe moving into town, and the “exceedingly magnificent” home to be built for Him (1 Chron 22:5)? Perhaps you would ask the man […]
Ray Comfort tells about a poster promoting atheism. It features pictures of Darwin, Jefferson and Lincoln, Ben Franklin, Einstein, Carl Sagan and Ernest Hemingway. “Atheism:” it says, “good enough for these idiots.” But is that true? Franklin wrote: “It is that particular wise and good God…that I propose for the object of my praise and […]
“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. […]
“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 […]
This world has become man’s hell. God’s hell is still coming. Don’t gamble with your forever. Jesus can save you now. No promises for tomorrow. […]
“Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in His mighty firmament! Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him according to His excellent greatness! Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; praise Him with the lute and harp! Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; praise Him with stringed instruments and […]
Confucianism: The insistence that human beings are perfectible through personal and communal endeavor. The main religious belief of China looks back to Confucius (the anglicized form of Kunk Fu-tzu, or Kung the Master) about 1000 years after Moses. Confucianism is an optimistic humanism that assumes man is basically good, being opposed to the biblical doctrine […]