Author: Nicholson
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December 31, 2024 — Payday For Joash
“Do not avenge yourselves,…for it is written, ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,’ says the Lord” (Rom 12:19). The biblical writers had a wonderful way of melding time with consequence. Listen to the next phrase in the ongoing drama. “So it happened…” (2 Chron 24:23). We know what happened before this. Like a vine ripe with God’s blessing […]
December 30, 2024 — The Sin Of Superficiality
The recent fad of decorating the skin with tattoos has turned superficiality into an art form. In His Sermon on the Mount, the Lord Jesus stressed the importance of inward reality over outward appearance. Whether in prayer, fasting, giving, or godly conduct, it’s what’s inside that counts. We’ve had hints that Joash’s reforms have been […]
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December 27, 2024 — Great Beginnings
Do you recall what you were doing at age 7? Imagine being sovereign of the Lord’s own land! Joash was an infant when put into hiding with his nursemaid in the temple. Six years later, he was crowned king. Thus we read the astonishing fact that “Joash was seven years old when he became king, and […]
Turned Upside Down
Tornadoes tend to do that—turn your life upside down, I mean. But on a mission of mercy to help a dear Christian who had been a step from death and whose life’s papers had been scattered far and wide across her little farm, we discovered something more powerful than a tornado: a still small voice. […]
How Does Your Garden Grow?
I was born on a bitterly cold Canadian winter night in January. The snow lay deep across the landscape. Nobody was thinking about gardening. Well, that may not be exactly true. The diehard gardeners, at the very moment of my birth, might have been sitting by the fire, turning the pages of their Stokes Seeds […]
December 26, 2024 — “Treason! Treason!”
She debased her husband, corrupted her son, murdered her grandchildren. Death was too good for her. Athaliah couldn’t help but hear the hubbub outside her palace window. It wasn’t regular activity, especially for a Sabbath. It sounded like the people were praising a king! Then she saw it: “there was the king standing by his pillar […]
December 25, 2024 — Ta-Da!
“The Lord isn’t slow…as some people think” (2 Pet 3:9, GWT). The wait may be long, but He’s never late. If you were going to hide something (or someone!) from Athaliah, the wicked monarch of Judah, where would you put it? In “the house of God,” of course (2 Chron 22:12). She never went near the place. And […]