CHRIST the TRUE VINE: “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing” (Jn 15:1). Christian service can be either overwork or overflow. Are we under Law or Grace? Is our Master an Egyptian slave-trader or is […]
“Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ” (2 Thess 3:5). What a gift to give your dear friends today, this prayer for perfect patience and infinite love—perfect because it is in Christ and infinite because it is from God. How much we need that […]
There are many ideas about Election. What does the Bible say? The word is used to describe the divine choice of: Christ (Isa 42:1; Lk 23:35; 1 Pet 2:6), obviously not for salvation for He is the Savior; the unfallen angels (1 Tim 5:21) who did not need to be saved; Israel (Rom 11:28) of […]
Our Lord is “a sun” (Ps 84:11). That’s illuminating, isn’t it! So no need to dwell in the dark. You can see that Psalm 13 has a different design. There are three sections with four lines in each. W. Graham Scroggie calls this “From Sighing to Singing.” This style is called iterative parallelism, where each line repeats […]
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. […]