CHRIST STRONGER than the STRONG MAN: “When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils” (Lk 11:21-22). Is it true that one […]
“So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer” (Ezra 8:23). What was the issue? Exposed to “the enemy” on the long journey from Babylon to Jerusalem, they humbled themselves before God “to seek from Him the right way for us and our little ones and all our possessions” (vv […]
The authors of the Epistles, writes J.B. Phillips, “had a tremendous sense of the overwhelming Moral Perfection of God. The insistence on the only safe approach to God being through Christ is due to this acute sense of the peril of a sinful being coming within range, as it were, of the blazing light and […]
“This is a faithful saying: for if we died with Him, we shall also live with Him. If we endure, we shall also reign with Him…” (2 Tim 2:11-12). Today we’re training for reigning. “Endure” means “to stay under.” Heirs to the kingdom at present are being trained by the Spirit to be governors—of their […]
The tribulation will be “unmatched from the beginning of the world until now” (Mt 24:21, BSB). What will the faithful sing? Although we’ve had hints of this before (in Psalms 5, 10, 17, and 35), when we come to Psalm 58, we are reading a fully-developed Imprecatory Psalm. An imprecation is “a calling down of God’s judgment […]
CHRIST OUR FOUNDATION: “For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (1 Cor 3:11). Sir William Dobbie was the heroic governor of Malta (biblical Melita, scene of Paul’s shipwreck) when, in 1940, it was bitterly besieged. But “the most bombed spot on earth” did not fall. He […]
“And Elisha prayed, and said, ‘Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.’ Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire…” (2 Ki 6:17). I’ve been told that angels appear in about 100 Bible stories. I […]
Christian apologist Josh McDowell explains that the change in his life when he trusted Christ convinced his father that there was hope for him as well. McDowell writes: “After I trusted Christ, my life was changed in six to eighteen months. But my father’s life was changed right before my eyes. It was as if […]
“…Aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing” (1 Thess 4:11-12). You can’t build a good testimony from what you are going to do. So, […]