The Wife’s Loving Rebuke
Martin Luther came rather despondently to the breakfast table one morning. The menu? Humble pie, compliments of his wise wife. […]
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March 24, 2025 — Finished — So They Could Start
Don’t be like those who never start serving because they’re always getting ready to get ready. King Darius had a vested interest in the temple reconstruction being continued and completed. In his reply to Tattenai, governor in Syria, he wrote, “Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and […]
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March 24
CHRIST ALL SUFFICIENT: “My grace is sufficient for you” (2 Cor 12:9). “One evening,” said C.H. Spurgeon, “I was riding home after a heavy day’s work, weary and sore depressed, when suddenly, as a lightning flash, came: ‘My grace is sufficient for Thee.’ And I said, ‘I should think it is, Lord,’ and burst out […]
March 24 Petition Mission
“Remove from me the way of lying, and grant me Your law graciously” (Ps 119:29). J.C. Ryle opines, “Think about how much falsehood and deceit there is in the world! How much exaggeration! How many untruths are added to a simple story! How many things are left out, if it does not serve the speaker’s […]
March 24
People who habitually turn away the Savior’s invitation need to understand how precarious their situation is. John explains, “He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His […]
March 23
CHRIST the TRUE MELCHIZEDEK: “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek” (Ps 110:4). This verse is quoted no less than seven times in the book of Hebrews. It is a biblical bombshell! God had separated “church and state” by selecting His kings from Judah and the priests from Levi. When He […]
March 23 Petition Mission
“Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely” (Rev 22:17). At the end of the first day of the Civil War’s battle of Fredericksburg, hundreds of Union men lay wounded near the road ascending Marye’s Heights. For most of the next day, the area was swept by artillery from both lines; no one […]
March 23
Alexander Marshall, the great pioneer of the gospel in the northeastern U.S., told of an old man he knew from East Anglia, England who used to say: “It took me forty-two years to learn three things: 1) That I could do nothing to save myself; 2) that God did not ask me to do anything; […]
March 22
CHRIST the SUSTAINER: “And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist (hold together) (Col 1:17). By appointment of President Woodrow Wilson, Henry van Dyke became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1913. The following year, World War I threw Europe into disarray. In the thick of it, van Dyke, though […]