CHRIST the STABILIZER: “Therefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved” (Php 4:1). It’s a wobbly world out there and the foundations of society are being purposefully undermined by those who have set themselves against the Lord. The storm warnings are out and the last great […]
“‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’” (Mk 12:30-31). Of course this is not a petition to be prayed. […]
“…sinners, of whom I am chief” (1 Tim 1:15). We were preaching at 6 a.m., in Exeter, England, near the castle. A young woman was passing by and just heard the sentence, “The greatest sinner in Exeter is welcome to the Lord Jesus Christ.” It was a message from God to her soul. She went […]
In French (Avise la fin), these are the wise words over the entry of Scotland’s Culzean Castle. Eliphaz has more to say. Much more (Job 5:1-27). Two of life’s most animating passions are correcting other people’s writings and critiquing other people’s behavior! He began his first response by calling Job to be ready to hear […]
CHRIST the REMAKER: “…so he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make” (Jer 18:4). As new creatures in Christ, we are welcome in Heaven, where He has “made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show […]
“And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the […]
George Goodman writes: “The gospel must be preached with the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven (1 Pet 1:12). This is why such blessing attended the preaching of Peter on the day of Pentecost. He was filled with the Spirit and spoke as the Spirit gave him utterance (Acts 2:4). The preacher must be one […]
Weak hands and wobbly knees rob me of my doing and my going. Thank God for strengtheners! Job’s lament (Job 3:3-26) has hardly died on the air before Eliphaz responds. He wonders aloud if “weary” Job is up for what he has to say to him (4:2, 5). But then he recalls that there have been many […]
JESUS, SPEAKING through CHILDREN: “Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise” (Mt 21:16). In 1880, James W.C. Fegan was on a camping trip in the country with some of the boys he had rescued from the city streets. They visited the home of Charles Darwin, who lived nearby, and […]