Our heroes are ordinary people who find supernatural help to overcome challenging circumstances. Clearly, one of the main characteristics required of these ancient kings was strength. There were only two sources for this—human or divine. Those who looked to the Lord prospered; those who rejected His support were doomed to failure. After the abysmal collapse […]
Have you ever seen those floral clocks? This tourist thought he’d try to fix one. Lesson: God’s timing is always perfect. Be encouraged, Christian…the Lord is on schedule. And He’s coming soon. […]
“Elijah…prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit” (Jas 5:17-18). Water doesn’t usually gush from the well on the first move of the pump handle. Vance Havner writes: “Elijah lives in confidence that there will be rain at the proper time. He is in contrition, his head between his knees. […]
A helpful guide to the effective use of biblical evidence is the Emmaus Study Course, Ready to Give an Answer by David Reid. He writes: “God asks us to defend and confirm the gospel (Phil 1:17). When the apostle Paul wrote, ‘I am appointed for the defense of the gospel’ (Phil 1:17), he was a […]
Don’t assume that hard times always bring people closer to the Lord. Sometimes it’s just the opposite. Winston Churchill said, “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” Ahaz was such a man. Depending on the arm of flesh, he had lost […]
Read More… from January 13, 2025 — “Increasingly Unfaithful”
“My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips. When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches” (Ps 63:5-6). “One night alone in prayer,” writes C.H. Spurgeon, “might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to […]
Mel Trotter, who founded 66 rescue missions in key cities across the U.S., wrote: “I didn’t get a very good start in the first place; my job was tending bar in my father’s saloon. Booze got the best of me pretty early in life, and before I was twenty years old I was the common […]
“Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you” (Mt 17:20). Burma’s intrepid pioneer missionary, Adoniram Judson (1788–1850), wrote: “‘Nothing is impossible to industry,’ said one of the seven […]
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee” (Ps 119:11). My Bible teaches that if a man can bridle his tongue, he can bridle his whole body (see Jas 3:2). That was one of the first lessons I learned in my Christian life… My tongue began to be […]