CHRIST the ABIDING ONE: “Abide in Me, and I in you” (Jn 15:4). James Hudson Taylor was born May 21, 1832, the only son of a druggist in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England. A frail child, his education was sporadic, mostly taken at home. In 1849, he picked up a tract on holiday and was struck with […]
“How awesome is this place! This…is the gate of heaven!” (Gen 28:17). There’s a remarkable spiral staircase with no central support at the Loretto Chapel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. But no, it isn’t a “Miraculous Stair” built by Joseph. When local carpenters couldn’t link the main floor with the choir loft (other than with […]
When Jim and Lil Dickson arrived in Taiwan (then Formosa) in 1927, .there was one unreached tribe of headhunters known as the Tyal (or Atayal) living in the mountains. Chi-oang, an elderly woman, was the first convert. Some objected to enrolling her in Bible school. What could this old woman do? But she persisted. The […]
“When a crime is not punished quickly, people feel it is safe to do wrong” (Eccl 8:11, NLT). Job agrees. Since the days of Job, times have obviously changed. Traditions have changed. Travel has changed. Technology certainly has changed. But the human condition? Not so much. There are still the haves and the have-nots, still those […]
CHRIST the FORGIVING ONE: “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you” (Mt 9:2). What is the payment made so that God can forgive us? “In whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins” (Col 1:14). To whom should this forgiveness be preached? “…Repentance and remission [forgiveness] of sins should […]
“In the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, the lot), before Haman to determine the day and the month…” (Est 3:7). That’s not a prayer, you say! And you’re right, of course. No prayer is recorded in this whole book. In fact, God’s name isn’t even there (except perhaps in coded […]
If Christianity is so great, why are there so few Christians? Don’t underestimate how many the Lord will save. When Jesus said, “narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Mt 7:13-14), He was speaking about that generation of Jews, most of whom […]
Job is not only disturbed that he is being punished—and for what?—but that the wicked are not. Thank you for letting us take a side trip from the passage at hand to lift up our eyes past the evening news. It’s so refreshing, isn’t it, to look beyond the present distress and see the divine […]
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CHRIST the MOTIVATOR: “For the love of Christ compels us” (2 Cor 5:14). Dr Helen Roseveare, medical missionary to the Congo, met the Lord personally at the age of 20 during a student retreat. She gave her testimony on the final evening, and Bible teacher Graham Scroggie wrote Philippians 3:10 in her Bible, and told […]