The life of faith can no more be sustained by flattery than it can be destroyed by criticism. Tongues kept wagging; trowels kept working. In spite of all the interference by foes and inaction by some who should have been helping, here is Nehemiah’s progress report: “So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of […]
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CHRIST the SIN-OFFERING: “…You make His soul an offering for sin” (Isa 53:10). Years ago, I was leading a tour to Israel and we had arranged to spend a day working with some archeologists excavating a Roman villa at Gilo. After we were done, I asked if we could sing a psalm to them. Graciously, […]
“When he is judged, let him be found guilty, and let his prayer become sin” (Ps 109:7). What a haunting request! This psalm provides a vivid example of an imprecation, the opposite of a benediction. There are at least 21 other Imprecatory Psalms calling down God’s judgment on His enemies. And while this doesn’t seem […]
“Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again’” (John 3:7). Ravi Zacharias addresses an increasingly common complaint: “‘Why can’t we leave everybody alone to follow the religion within which they were born? Why all this proclamation and propagation?’ Once again, this demand challenges the very core of the Christian faith, […]
A special video in honor of our mothers: You play a role much greater than you may know. […]
Tobiah and company couldn’t betray Nehemiah; they had to pay a friend he trusted to do that. Nehemiah wasn’t quite out of danger yet. He had stayed inside the city to avoid the trap set for him on the way to Ono. The road from Jerusalem to Ono, following the Aijalon Valley, would have scores […]
CHRIST our INSTRUCTOR: “You call Me Teacher and Lord,” He said as He resumed His place among them at the table; “and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher…” (Jn 13:13-14). We notice at once the change in the order of the words. In thinking and speaking of […]
“A broken and a contrite heart—these, O God, You will not despise” (Ps 51:17). Sometimes tears are liquid prayers, heard in heaven. Publius Statius, 1st Century Roman poet, wrote of an “Altar of Pity” in the Athenian Agora. He says: “There was in the midst of the city an altar belonging to no god of […]
John Townsend had been visiting a prisoner on death row. One day he said to his daughter Abbie, “This man will be executed tomorrow. He always welcomes me, but shows no interest in his soul. Would you have the courage to visit him?” Arriving at his cell, Abbie held out her hand, but he did […]