Without question, fear of rejection is the Number One reason for lack of witnessing. But is it a good reason? We wouldn’t worry what people thought of us if we realized how little they did. And besides, what people think of you won’t matter a snap of the fingers, but what they think of Christ […]
CHRIST is NEAR: “But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (Deut 30:14). Henry Law writes: “Here the gospel beams forth brightly. This is a picture with Christ in the foreground…For the Spirit, who thus speaks by Moses, interprets also by the mouth of Paul (see Rom 10:6-10). He […]
“Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my end be like his!” (Num 23:10). There have been, in the annals of the long war against God, a cadre of enemies who have fought up close and personal. History has marked them out as especially dangerous because of their high privilege — and […]
Henry Morris and Martin Clark write: “…many of the principles of modern science were recorded as facts of nature in the Bible long before science confirmed them experimentally. A sampling of these would include the roundness of the earth (Isa 40:22), the almost infinite extent of the sidereal universe (Isa 55:9), the law of conservation […]
CHRIST our ROCK: “When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I” (Ps 61:2). On Sep 6, 1838, the SS Forfarshire, with 60 passengers plus the crew on board, crashed against the rugged shore a mile from Longstone Lighthouse, breaking the vessel in two. The front half of the […]
“Deliver the poor and needy; free them from the hand of the wicked” (Ps 82:4). Darlene Rose is well known for her thrilling book, Evidence Not Seen, concerning her life in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. Darlene and Jerry Rose later served among stone-age tribes in Dutch New Guinea (now Papua New […]
“Above all, taking the shield of faith” (Eph 6:16). Often this shield is molded in the fires of testing. Andrew Stenhouse writes: “The landlord called for his money the first day of the month. Our mail came by sea. One had just come and brought us no mail, the next due in two weeks. The […]
Godly heroism—it comes in all shapes and sizes. In the face of unspeakable terror and cruelty, hear the words of a woman and her sons. No surprise if you weep and rejoice at the same time. […]
“When I see the Lord Jesus Christ, I simply want to be what He wants me to be.” —Oswald Chambers Did you notice the mention of Barzillai in Ezra 2:61? Actually there are two by that name. And there’s a lesson here that we can’t miss. We met the original Barzillai, an octogenarian who met […]
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