JESUS, FRIEND of SINNERS: “The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’” (Lk 7:34). Their bitterest words turned sweet in the presence of the Lord Jesus. Clearly He is the world’s Best Friend. “Greater love has no one […]
“Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem” (Ezra 7:27). Ezra was flabbergasted that a Gentile king would want to participate in restoring the Lord’s temple. He had been given a blank […]
“In the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be self lovers, money lovers,…pleasure lovers and no God lovers; having a form of godliness, but denying its power” (2 Tim 3:1-5). Who are the people we meet every day? George Barna writes: “The most quoted ‘Bible verse’ in America is: ‘God helps those […]
It’s hard to say goodbye to those who love us. But imagine people waiting for us with love at our next destination. That’s Jesus’ idea. […]
How could they be expected to do the will of God if they didn’t know the Word of God? How can we? Nehemiah 7 concludes as follows: “When the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities” (v 73). Seventy years had passed since these very cities had been abandoned and the people dragged […]
CHRIST the PRAYER INSTRUCTOR: “Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples’” (Lk 11:1). Sir Thomas Abney, knighted by William III, was one of the original Directors of […]
“Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it” (Ps 127:1). The Hebrew words ben (son), bath (daughter), and beith (house) all come from the same root banah, “to build.” The West seems to have forgotten that families are the building blocks of a nation. And the notion that the Lord […]
In his remarkable account, Incidents of Gospel Work, Charles Stanley of Rotherham, England writes: “On one occasion I felt a distinct call to preach at a place I had only seen once. I did not know the name of the town, but I described it to a person from Staffordshire, who told me it was […]
The chattering classes are swooning these days over the meteoric rise of stocks and crypto, and talking about improving all eleven sectors of the economy, a system that groups all businesses into categories to aid investors in balancing their portfolios. Full disclosure: I’m neither an economist nor a businessman. I’m certainly not an investor, at […]