Dear Prodigal, how long and how far have you wandered from the Savior? Don’t you long for those days of happy fellowship with the Lord? Should you turn around this very moment, guess Who you’ll find has been walking with you in your wanderings? Be prepared to see the Father run! […]
“I have more understanding than all my teachers: for Your testimonies are my meditation” (Ps 119:99). “Moral relativism is a philosophical failure,” Francis Beckwith explains with a true story: “The teacher instructs her class, ‘This is the first day of class, and so I want to lay down some ground rules. First, since no one […]
Paul spoke of “endless genealogies.” Christ was their end point. Reject Him and they’re endless. Reading the Hebrew Bible, when you arrived at the Chronicles you would be at the end! The two books of Chronicles (originally one volume) were called Dibre Hayyamin, or “The Events of the Times.” They complete the third division of […]
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“How many are the days of Your servant? When will You execute judgment on those who persecute me?” (Ps 119:84). The long wait! When it seems you’ve had your hope deferred one too many times, when those who mistreat you do it again, seemingly without repercussions, ask yourself: How long has Jesus waited? Recorded 3,500 […]
Paul speaks of men “who suppress the truth” (Rom 1:18). John Blanchard writes: “Although countless scientists today hold to divine creation, Colin Patterson is right to claim that in many cases, ‘post-Darwinian biology is being carried out by people whose faith is in, almost, the deity of Darwin.’ If God is a non-starter, evolution seems […]
“Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His hands what He spoke with His mouth to my father David” (2 Chron 6:4). Signor Prochet of the Waldensian Church tells of a long drought in north Italy. One little congregation arranged a special meeting to pray for rain to save the crops. […]
J. Hudson Taylor, gospel pioneer to China, though raised in a Christian home, remained ignorant of what it meant to become a true believer. He tried to “make” himself a Christian, but after failing in his attempts, he grew skeptical. He writes: “The inconsistencies of Christian people, who, while professing to believe their Bibles, were […]
Evangelist Billy Bray would break into singing in the middle of his sermons, and say, “He has made me glad and no one can make me sad.” […]
“’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far And grace will lead me home.” —John Newton Imagine the view from heaven as the Books of the Kings conclude. Jerusalem is a ruin. The holy vessels lie at Shinar, in the house of Nebuchadnezzar’s god. No sweet savor arises to Your nostrils from the Great Altar […]