CHRIST the ANTIDOTE to WORRY: Clearly there is a difference between legitimate concern and worry. Concern is taking seriously my responsibility; worry is taking God’s responsibility as if it were mine. The Lord said, “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you […]
“If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (Gal 3:29). When I was a boy, Sgt. Preston of the Mounted Police, with his Husky, Yukon King, was the hero of a popular TV series. Quaker Oats sponsored the program. As a promotion, the company purchased 19 acres of […]
What are the most positive and most negative sentences in the NT? The first reads, “God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every (lit. all) good work” (2 Cor 9:8). In the Greek, the root word for “all” occurs five […]
CHRIST the FOUNTAIN: “With You is the fountain of life” (Ps 36:9). Peter Cartright (1785-1872) is a remarkable example of the muscular Christianity that plowed up the fallow ground of the American frontier. Born to a poor, ungodly veteran of the Revolutionary War, he was converted at a gospel meeting a few miles from his […]
“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 […]
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 […]
The poor lost world, when they hear the gospel, can join the prodigal and say, “There’s bread enough and to spare in the Father’s house, and I perish with hunger.” No need! Come home! The banquet is ready! […]
The difficult paths of believers and unbelievers may seem similar. But Job says there are big distinctions! In pressing home his arguments, in this section (Job 27:13-23) Job tries to draw a careful distinction between his own case, and judgment brought on a wicked man by the Lord. I found my studies here akin to […]
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CHRIST MANIFESTED: “This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory” (Jn 2:11), that is, began to unveil His blessed character as revealing the Father. “The life was manifested,” life as God intended it to be, “and we…declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was […]