CHRIST our TRANSFORMER: “We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Cor 3:18). You may have heard the saying: You have the face you deserve by the time […]
“Then He said to them, ‘The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest’” (Lk 10:2). The word translated “send out” is ekballo, to expel, to throw out, to thrust or drive out. It was used of a dislocated shoulder. […]
“And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire” (Jude 23). Think carefully and prayerfully about these words from Alexander Marshall: “A soul saved saves that soul from more misery, anguish, and torment than has ever been suffered by all the people of the world from the beginning of time to this time, […]
This story is given in tribute the servants of whom Paul writes: “as unknown” (by the world) “and yet well-known” (by Heaven). But God has His ways in getting the word out about those who, by their simple holy lives, honor Him. […]
Not long after crossing from Louisiana into Mississippi on Highway 969, near Pinckneyville, you’ll find a monument to fickle fortune. It isn’t inscribed that way on the roadside plaque. It’s never that obvious. Instead, it indicates the unmarked grave of Oliver Pollock. Pollock, born in Northern Ireland in 1737, emigrated to Pennsylvania at age 23. […]
“Our tongue is a messenger that runs errands for our heart. Our words reveal our character.” —C. Swindoll Words can be weapons, and play their part in the battle for truth. Psalm 12 begins with a godly man’s petition (vv 1-4) and concludes with the divine provision (vv 5-8). David certainly gets to the point: “Help, […]
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CHRIST our PEACE: “He is our peace” (Eph 2:14). Peace (Gk, eirene) is the “tranquil state of the soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and content with its lot” (W.E. Vine). True peace in the believer is stated to be the result of justification (Rom 5:1) and reconciliation […]
“You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know” (Job 42:3). Job is quoting Jehovah here (see 38:2). It’s easy to overestimate what we can handle, and thus our frustration with God when He withholds […]
Stirred by Bunyan’s “Visions of Heaven and Hell,” drunkard miner Billy Bray sought the Lord. For days in soul trouble, finally, he writes: “I said to the Lord, ‘Thou hast said, They that ask shall receive…and I have faith to believe it.’ In an instant the Lord made me so happy that I cannot express […]