“Praying also for us, that God would open to us a door for the word” (Col 4:3). Ever feel like your attempts at speaking to others about the Lord are like banging your head against the wall? I think I can almost hear the Master saying, “Would you be interested in knowing where the door […]
George Goodman writes: An appeal should only be made when the Spirit has evidently been convicting the hearers, and then in such sober and wise terms as will leave no doubt as to the step to be taken. We are not without precedent in Scripture. Perhaps the appeal par excellence is, “Now then, we are […]
CHRIST the BEGINNING: In John 1:1, the Lord Jesus is spoken of as “In the beginning.” This chapter declares Him as the Eternal God, for before any created thing—all of which He made (v 3)—He existed. In 1 John 1:1, He is “from the beginning.” Go back as far as the mind can conceive. Beyond […]
“I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you” (Isa 46:4). Henry Moorhouse is called the man who taught D.L. Moody how to preach the love of God. Moody said, “I have never forgotten those nights hearing Henry Moorhouse. I have preached a different gospel since….” Moorhouse and his […]
H.A. Ironside tells of addressing a “Mission to Israel” in San Francisco in 1898. At the end, an elderly Jew said: “This is Passover week among you, my Jewish brethren; and I was thinking how you will be observing it. You will attend the synagogue services, and carry out the directions of the Talmud; but […]
“Whoever drinks of the water that I [Christ] shall give him will never thirst” (Jn 4:14). Psalm 42 has an obvious pattern. There are two stanzas with a repeated chorus. This pattern follows in Psalm 43 with the same chorus, the reason many think the two psalms were originally one. But we’ll leave them as they are. As […]
CHRIST, DEATH’S CONQUEROR: “Knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him” (Rom 6:9). Circus hand Alfred Mace was a most unlikely young man to be listening to William Carter preach that night in a Brixton theater. “But just about midnight,” he writes, “I joined […]
“Men always ought to pray and not lose heart” (or “faint,” KJV) (Lk 18:1). H.G. Bosch quotes a missionary commenting on this verse: “My concordance shows the root meaning of the word ‘faint’ is ‘to cave in.’ What causes a ‘cave-in’? It is weakness on one hand and pressure on the other. What causes a […]
One of the most important lessons in the book of Acts is this: there’s room for everyone on the team. Not all could preach like Peter, but Peter first had to be brought to Jesus, and was, by his otherwise retiring brother, Andrew. Matthew arranged a dinner for the local tax office and invited Someone […]