“When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest if you must, but don’t you quit!” —Edgar A. Guest We’re told in our decadent Western society that it’s dangerous to be too busy. Some have selected this as their favorite Bible verse: “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, […]
CHRIST the CONQUEROR: “When a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor” (Lk 11:22). Both from the case of the Gadarene demoniac and the one in the synagogue of Capernaum we learn that, great as was the sway of Satan over the bodies and souls of […]
“As your life was valued much this day in my eyes, so let my life be valued much in the eyes of the Lord, and let Him deliver me out of all tribulation” (1 Sam 26:24). Much can be gained in Bible study by asking: How did I expect this to conclude? Your life… valued […]
“The Lord is near to all who call upon Him” (Ps 145:18). William James Taylor, alias Bill Hennessy, alias Ed Lynch, learned he couldn’t hide from God. At the age of three, at his father’s San Francisco bar he grew to like the taste of liquor by dipping his fingers into the used glasses. By […]
“By Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God,…giving thanks to His name” (Heb 13:15). “And when the seventh month had come,…the people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem” (Ezra 3:1). For seventy long years the temple site had lain in ruins. The newly arrived inhabitants were using the revived Jewish calendar, with […]
CHRIST our ONLY SAVIOR: “I, even I, am the Lord, and besides Me there is no savior” (Isa 43:11). “And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be Savior of the world” (1 Jn 4:14). “…There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must […]
“I have declared my ways, and You answered me; teach me Your statutes. Make me understand the way of Your precepts; so shall I meditate on Your wonderful works” (Ps 119:26-27). My ways and His way — how eloquent! I try this road — and find it a dead end. What I think is a […]
Without question, fear of rejection is the Number One reason for lack of witnessing. But is it a good reason? We wouldn’t worry what people thought of us if we realized how little they did. And besides, what people think of you won’t matter a snap of the fingers, but what they think of Christ […]
CHRIST is NEAR: “But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (Deut 30:14). Henry Law writes: “Here the gospel beams forth brightly. This is a picture with Christ in the foreground…For the Spirit, who thus speaks by Moses, interprets also by the mouth of Paul (see Rom 10:6-10). He […]