“Your gentleness has made me great” (2 Sam 22:36). In urging Robert Southey to write a biography of John Wesley, Sir Walter Scott recounts the following: “When I was twelve years old, I heard him [Wesley] preach more than once, standing on a chair, in Kelso churchyard. He was a most venerable figure…. He told […]
The primitive churches were not mere assemblies of men who agreed to meet together once or twice a week, and to subscribe for the support of an accomplished man who should on those occasions deliver lectures on religion. They were men gathered out of the world by the preaching of the cross, and formed into […]
Put an 85-year-old man, a 150-year-old tree, and a chain saw together. What do you get? A lesson that cuts right to the heart. […]
The Holy Bible is the only great book without a title. It’s so special it didn’t need one. “Holy” means “set apart” from every other book, since it’s the only one from heaven. “Bible” is just the Greek word BIBLION, which simply means “book.” It’s THE Book. Do you wonder why there are those long […]
“‘Who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?’ But we have the mind of Christ” (1 Cor 2:16). In seeking after God, Job will later observe, we can only discover “the mere edges of His ways, and how small a whisper we hear of Him!” (Job 26:14). So if he can’t understand God, […]
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CHRIST the RESTORER: Of the Good Shepherd it says, “He restores my soul” (Ps 23:3). Wilbur Smith, in his Treasury of Books for Bible Study, spoke of G. Campbell Morgan’s preaching as “the greatest Biblical preaching of the twentieth century.” Whether it is or not, Morgan’s commentaries are still valued for their careful exposition and […]
“The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come!’ And let him who hears say, ‘Come!’ And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely” (Rev 22:17). The first time the Lord Jesus came, it was not a day too soon: “When the fullness of the time had come, God […]
Col. Robert Ingersoll, the apostle of agnosticism in nineteenth century America, once had the task of speaking at his brother’s funeral in Washington, DC. In the middle of his talk, he broke down and wept bitterly. Then, regaining his composure, he said: “Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two […]
Jesus taught that, in true communion, we ask for God’s will before we ask for our daily needs. Remarkably, although Job is like a pugilist fighting off not one but two feisty combatants, he still has his wits about him. The first section of his response to Bildad (ch 9) begins with a portrait of […]