CHRIST the DOER: “I always DO those things that please Him” (Jn 8:29). If we are to follow Christ, we will also be doers. As He said, “If you know these things, happy are you if you do them” (Jn 13:17). We do well to follow the advice of Mary, “Whatever He says to you, […]
“Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust” (Ps 16:1). Here’s a prayer to offer on behalf of our young people, especially those at college. William MacDonald writes: “Every day you may sit under the instruction of unregenerate men and women who have no love for your Savior or your Bible. At […]
Want to help advance the gospel? Evaluate needs: see your area as a mission field; map population centers; identify people groups. Assess opportunities: pray for “open doors” (Acts 14:27; 1 Cor. 16:9; 2 Cor. 2:12; Col. 4:3); observe where people gather; look for vulnerabilities (Lk. 4:18) as entry-ways to the good news; observe and develop […]
The evolutionist wants to silence nature as the voice of God, but it eloquently speaks everywhere. Job’s friends have simplistically concluded that life follows a basic equation: do good and you get goods. If you see a rich man, he must be a good man. And the opposite is also true. If Job has lost […]
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CHRIST the SIMPLE ANSWER: “‘How can we know the way?’ Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way…’” (Jn 14:5-6). Frederick Baedeker received permission to distribute Bibles in the far-flung prisons of Tsarist Russia. At one near the Black Sea, he had given Bibles to the general population, when the guard told of a murderer […]
“When Hezekiah and the leaders came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord and His people Israel” (2 Chron 31:8). Under good king Hezekiah, temple worship had been restored. Now the people needed to give generously to provide for the Lord’s work. When the king visited the place where they were gathering the supplies, […]
The remarkable conversion of British thinker C.S. Lewis is described in his own words: “To find their way, atheists must make sense out of a random first cause, denounce as immoral all moral denunciation, express meaningfully all meaninglessness, and find security in hopelessness.…You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, […]
Foolishness is more than stupidity. It is the deadly combination of ignorance and arrogance. In spite of facing three frontal attacks from these “miserable comforters” (Job 16:2), Job still has a few arrows left in his quiver. He decides to first highlight the fact that all three men are know-it-alls. It isn’t the basis of a long-term […]
CHRIST the COMPLETER, as seen in John 17. In the Lord’s prayer to His Father, seven times He declares to have accomplished what He set out to do. He said, “I have glorified You on the earth” (v 4), that is, He had displayed the glories of His Father while on this planet. Then He […]