How can I have “the tongue of the learned” (Isa 50:4)? I’ll need first “to hear as the learned” from the Lord. The ability to form abstract thoughts into words and transfer them to other minds is a gift entrusted on earth only to humans. Thus, it’s a stewardship for which we will someday answer. In fact, “for every idle […]
CHRIST the TRUSTWORTHY ONE: “In His name Gentiles will trust” (Mt 12:21). In a little Perthshire town in Scotland there was a minister of the gospel whose name filled the district like ointment poured forth. A Highland drover sometimes passed through this town. On one occasion, he waited over to the Lord’s day to hear […]
“How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” (Ps 119:103). Do you ever think how much work it takes to give you a spoonful of honey? With their wings moving at 12,000 beats/minute, bees fly more than once around the world to gather just one pound of honey; in […]
Men are formed in character not only by their past and present, but also by their futures. Man inwardly grows the higher his ideals are. So also in spiritual life, hope and sanctification belong together. “And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure” (1 Jn 3:3). Thus Christ […]
Jaffa, biblical Joppa, sits atop a hill jutting out into the sapphire Mediterranean, Israel’s ancient seaport and historic gateway to the world. Restored today, Old Jaffa’s cobblestone alleys wind past buildings older than America. Filled with art galleries and restaurants, the sights and smells are worth experiencing, but you probably couldn’t afford to live there. […]
“One of the greatest rewards for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.” —C.H. Spurgeon Elihu has been exposing Job’s wrong thinking about God. Now, in Job 35:1-8, he deals with Job’s wrong thinking about himself. Beautiful attributes are twisted into grotesque shapes when “self ” is added. Love? Self-love! Justification? […]
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CHRIST our ADVOCATE: “My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 Jn 2:1). The word advocate (par-ak’-lay-tos) refers to someone “called to one’s side to give aid; one who takes up another’s […]
“It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh…” (2 Ki 19:4). Interesting, isn’t it? God not only hears the petitions of His people, but the grievous words of His people’s critics, too. The National Statuary Hall in Washington, DC’s Capitol used to be the chamber of the […]
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834–1892), was converted at age 15, and preached his first message in a cottage at Teversham the following year. Just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 19, was called to the New Park Street Chapel, a large congregation in London. Spurgeon both preached and wrote with deep passion for Christ. […]