God is a perfect Gentleman. If you don’t want Him, He’ll withdraw so as not to impose on you. I recall a talk at our dinner table when I was a boy. The topic was H.R. Palmer’s hymn, “Yield Not to Temptation.” My father said he didn’t think one line was true: “Each vict’ry will […]
The great monotheistic religions of the world all trace their history to the little region east of the Mediterranean that still dominates world news. One of the uniting features of all three beliefs—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—is their conviction that we are not left to our own religious inventiveness because GOD HAS SPOKEN. How did He […]
“The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; my God…in whom I will trust” (Ps 18:2). Asa, “because the Lord had given him rest” (2 Chron 14:6), took advantage of the lull in hostilities. “Therefore he said to Judah, ‘Let us build these cities and make walls around them, and towers, gates, and bars, while the […]
“In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength” (Isa 30:15). After “Abijah rested with his fathers” (2 Chron 14:1), his son Asa ascended the throne of Judah in Jerusalem. Happily, “Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God, for he removed the altars of […]
Our Lord is stronger than the strong man (Lk 11:21-22); He can toss him with one finger (v 20)! As with the devil at Calvary, what Jeroboam thought would be his greatest victory was his ultimate defeat. “Thus the children of Israel were subdued at that time; and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied […]
Read More… from November 26, 2024 — It’s A No-Go For Our Foe
A cabin boy tossed overboard and rescued stated something wonderfully true about the Captain of our lives. […]
Christian, do you feel surrounded? You are of course—“the Lord surrounds His people” (Ps 125:2). It wasn’t that Abijah didn’t warn Jeroboam about the secret weapons in his arsenal. Listen! “The priests who minister to the Lord are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites attend to their duties. And they burn to the Lord every morning […]
It’s good to not keep an inventory of wrongs against us–or of kindnesses done by us either. But God covers the first by Jesus’ blood and the second by His wonderful grace. […]