In John 6:37 our Lord says: “All that the Father gives Me will come to Me.” Doesn’t God want all to be saved? Hebrews 2:9 reads, “that He (Christ) by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” 2 Peter 3:9 also says: “The Lord…is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should […]
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you” (Jer 29:11-12). Praying is away better than day-dreaming: in […]
If you find a distance between your soul and God, there’s no question as to who moved. So far, we have considered the biographical backdrop to Psalm 34, the rising tide of praise from David, and those hearing him who join in to “exalt His name together” (v 3, see also vv 1-2). Then in cryptic terms, […]
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CHRIST our SCAPE-GOAT. The Septuagint translates the verses about the azazel or scape-goat as follows: “Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord, and offer it as a sin offering; but the goat on which the lot of the sent away one fell shall be presented alive before the Lord […]
“Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for You are my praise” (Jer 17:14). This world has all sorts of disease and danger. At the spring of them all is the selfish pride that brought the universe to moral collapse. When Paul called himself the chief […]
George Whitfield, who preached more than 18,000 times, was one of the most widely recognized public figures in colonial America. During the Great Awakening of 1740, he was addressing a large open-air meeting from the words, “And the door was shut” (Mt 25:10). A young man in the audience, standing not far from the preacher, […]
“It is good to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning, and Your faithfulness every night” (Ps 92:1). What great bookends to the day! Begin the day by positioning yourself directly in the sunshine of His love, and finish it […]
If there’s one thing we learn from detective novelists, it’s that there are endless ways to shuffle off this mortal coil, as Hamlet would say. But even they would be unwilling to use these stranger-than-fiction departures in their books. On July 25, 1911, American stunt performer Bobby Leach was the first man to successfully go over […]
Does the Lord deliver us even when our troubles are our own fault? Don’t you like that word ALL? We have seen the dark backdrop from the life of David in 1 Samuel 21. The story is cryptically portrayed in Psalm 34:4-7. “This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out […]