God gave you a non-renewable gift today of 86,400 seconds. I suppose that’s why we call it the present. God very particularly had decreed that the Passover, recounting Israel’s deliverance from Egyptian bondage by the blood of the lamb, was to be celebrated in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at […]
On the last day of September 1816, Robert Moffat sailed from London for South Africa. Proceeding to Namaqualand on the west coast, he there acquired the Dutch language. While residing with a Boer farmer, he was asked to conduct a “service” in the house. Moffat requested that the master call his servants. “Do you mean […]
“With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!” (Ps 119:10). Webster defines “wandering” as “to move about without a fixed course, aim, or goal.” To everyone else around us, we may seem to be focused and disciplined. But the Lord knows that a life aimed at anything […]
“Nothing with God is too good to be true; the truth is the best of everything.” —R.J. Campbell As we continue to read of the celebration at the temple, it’s hard to believe that only a few months before incense had been ascending from every hill and on every street corner in Jerusalem to the […]
Whatever you know of God’s truth, do it. That is what the disciples were told in John 2:5, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” Above all, it is what the Lord says, “You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you” (Jn 15:14). We never read of purifying our souls in hearing […]
“Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice.…Cast your burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain you…” (Ps 55:17, 22). The Lord doesn’t just sustain your burden when cast on Him; He sustains you! Adrian Rogers writes: “The greatest problem we face is not […]
Song gives wings to the soul. We sing our sweetest to the One who put the new song in our hearts. It has to be one of the most descriptive—and delightful—sentences in the Chronicles: “And when the burnt offering began, the song of the Lord also began” (2 Chron 29:27). How could the burnt offering be described? […]
Sir Moses Montefiore was the most famous Jew in the 19th Century. Linked by marriage and business to the Rothschilds, he was knighted by Queen Victoria and renowned for his philanthropy. He had an aunt Lydia in Marseille who was a determined Jewess. One day she received a visit from J.P. Cohen, a Jewish believer. […]