CHRIST the DELIVERER: “The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is My covenant with them, when I take away their sins” (Rom 11:26-27). The Lord Jesus did not agonize at Calvary to save us from the sins we find distasteful and inconvenient. He “gave Himself […]
“And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory […]
The Reason Why, a gospel booklet written in 1913 by Robert Laidlaw, a New Zealand businessman, 50 years later had reached a worldwide circulation of 16 million copies in 30 languages. Thousands of letters poured into his office from around the world, letters like: “Have read your booklet. Your booklet has given me rebirth. As […]
“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me” (Php 3:12). Who you are now and who you hope to become requires a bridge of honest reality between the two. Today I need […]
Jesus said, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them?” (Mt 9:15). Not everyone enjoys reading the account of a society wedding recorded in the local newspaper. But this wedding is different. The Bridegroom is so sure of the details that this description in Psalm 45 was recorded at least […]
CHRIST the MAN of SORROWS: “He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief” (Isa 53:3). C.H. Spurgeon writes, “Sometimes God sends His love letters in black-edged envelopes. He allows us to taste the bitterness of want and the desolation of bereavement. If you have lived many years, you […]
“The Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in You!” (Ps 84:11-12). Is it not a strange thing that we trust God for our eternal salvation but that our faith sometimes wavers when it comes […]
To a large degree, the gospel will only grip others’ hearts to the measure in which it has gripped our own. Robert Robinson was living a wicked life in London when he and some friends decided to hear George Whitefield preach. That evening he took his text from Matthew 3:7, “When He saw many of […]
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful” (Prov 27:6). Some of us are good at dishing it out, but find it hard to take correction. But friends who know and love us should be encouraged to give it to us straight. Like God, they hurt to heal […]