“My ears You have opened.” That the King of kings should thus come to be the Servant of servants!” So far, Psalm 40 has presented to us the Sinner’s Plea (vv 1-3), the Saint’s Praise (vv 4-5), and the Savior’s Provision (vv 6-8). Before we leave this sacred section, notice the change between the Hebrew text, “My ears You have opened” (v 6), and […]
CHRIST the PREPARER of our PLACE: George Henderson points out that the Christian is bound to heaven by eight gold links. Our Father is there: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name” (Mt 6:9). Our Savior is there: “Christ has…entered…into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us” (Heb 9:24). […]
“To Him who made great lights, for His mercy endures forever—the sun to rule by day, for His mercy endures forever; the moon and stars to rule by night, for His mercy endures forever” (Ps 136:7-9). Do you regularly express thanks to the Lord for His specific acts of creation? The psalmist did. Explaining the […]
Eric Liddell, the winner of the 400-metre race at the 1924 Paris Olympics, was a consecrated Christian. The film *Chariots of Fire* accurately recounts his refusal to run his best event, the 100-metre race, because it was on the Lord’s Day, and that someone slipped a paper to him as he stood at the starting […]
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb 11:1). Do you see what this means? Believers building our lives on the Word can transfer, by faith, the invisible eternal realities into evidence everyone can see as proof that God is telling the truth. […]
CHRIST the TESTATOR of the NEW COVENANT: “This is the covenant that I will make with them…Their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more” (Heb 10:16-17). Sheila O’Gahagan, a factory girl, broken in health, was advised to spend time at the shore. But she knew she had a deeper problem—her sin. Sitting near […]
“Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church” (Acts 12:5). Do you wonder what those prayers sounded like? Some have thought these first-century Christians didn’t really believe the Lord would deliver Peter from prison because, when he suddenly showed up at the house and “they […]
If the Bible is rooted in history, that presents a problem: how can you trust the accounts of Jesus when we now know that history is simply propaganda written by the winners? This is an increasingly popular view, especially in academia. Postmodernist historian Greg Dening argues: “History is something we make rather than something we […]
“Those who war against you shall be as nothing, as a nonexistent thing. For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you’” (Isa 41:12-13). Concern is taking seriously our responsibility; worry is taking seriously God’s responsibility, a kind of mild atheism that acts as […]