“Love is patient and kind;…it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way” (1 Cor 13:4-5, ESV). The garden party had been going on for a week. On the last day of the feast, Ahasuerus gave proof that another king was right when he wrote, “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is […]
CHRIST, LORD of CREATION: “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth” (Mt 28:18). Only the miracle of creation and divine maintenance preserves our planet and its wonderful adaptations and provisions for the propagation of human life. Within our earth itself wind, wave, lightning, storm, flood, drought, avalanche, earthquake, fire, heat, […]
“I entreated Your favor with my whole heart; be merciful to me according to Your word. I thought about my ways, and turned my feet to Your testimonies. I made haste, and did not delay to keep Your commandments” (Ps 119:58-60). David’s prayer for mercy is among five statements of personal action. The first four […]
“No man in the world today has such power as he who can make his fellow men feel that Christ is a reality.” So wrote Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933). What does the Bible say? “To His saints…God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which […]
CHRIST TRIUMPHANT: “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold…He will not fail nor be discouraged” (Isa 42:1, 4). Pengwern Jones, fellow missionary to India and biographer of John “Praying” Hyde, wrote the following concerning a message Hyde gave about Christ’s victory at the cross: “To all appearances, the struggle was over and His life had come […]
“O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps” (Jer 10:23). The headlines of the UK’s Daily Mail article announced: “Imam discovers worshippers at his mosque in Turkey have been praying in the wrong direction for 37 years.” According to […]
J. Budziszewski abandoned the Christian faith in his youth. His explanation is telling: “At the bottom of all atheism is self-deception…Self-deception means playing dumb. It means pretending to ourselves that we don’t know what we really do; it means playing at being ignorant though we are really in the know. I suggest that we human […]
JESUS the SUPREME COMMUNICATOR: “No man ever spoke like this Man!” (Jn 7:46). So said the mesmerized officers who had been sent to arrest Him. “So all bore witness to Him, and marveled at the gracious words which proceeded out of His mouth” (Lk 4:22). This the testimony of Christ’s fellow townsmen. What of the […]
“Let my prayer be set before You as incense” (Ps 141:2). William Cowper wrote: What various hindrances we meet in coming to the Mercy Seat! Yet who that knows the worth of prayer but wishes to be often there? Prayer makes the darken’d cloud withdraw; prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw, Gives exercise to faith […]