“When the Lord brought back the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream” (Ps 126:1). Unlike the long recorded journey from Egypt to Canaan, the four-month trip from Babylon to Jerusalem, covering nearly 900 miles (1,448 km), is hardly mentioned. The numbers of their camels and mules, their horses and donkeys, are mentioned (Ezra […]
CHRIST the KING: “Who is this King of glory?” (Ps 24:10). From the correspondence of Viscountess Powerscourt: Who is this King that we should leave all other subjects to speak of Him? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in our battles, the Lord of hosts, the King of glory. My Lord, who sits […]
“Do not be rash with your mouth, and let not your heart utter anything hastily before God. For God is in heaven, and you on earth; therefore let your words be few” (Eccl 5:2). Earth’s false lights can blind us to God’s glory. S.D. Gordon tells of a gentleman who was asked by an artist […]
H.A. Ironside writes: Recently, while presenting the gospel on the streets in California, I was often interrupted like this: “Look here, sir. There are hundreds of religions in this country, and the followers of each think theirs the only right one. How can plain men like us find out what really is the truth?” “Hundreds […]
Missing from earth’s honor rolls, how wonderful to have my name written above in the autograph of God. As we examine the list of names in Ezra 2, two facts should be obvious. First, as in many lists already viewed earlier in the Hebrew Scriptures, the Lord doesn’t miss a thing. Unlike world rulers, God […]
CHRIST the ALPHA and OMEGA (Rev 1:8, 11; 21:6; 22:13). F.W. Boreham writes: Since Alpha is simply the first letter in the Greek alphabet and Omega the last, it is as if He said, “I am the alphabet!” He, who loved all common and familiar things—sparrows and ravens, lilies and wheat—took the letters that little […]
“The Lord is good to those who wait for Him” (Lam 3:25). Often prayer is referred to as waiting. “In darkness, underneath the January frost, God is getting ready the royal glories of spring…it is His ordination that there shall be eleven months of husbandry for one month of harvest. “In the spiritual field you […]
The word “Agnosticism” was introduced by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869 although the concept of pleading ignorance in spiritual matters has been around since antiquity. This is the philosophical view that the truth value of certain claims—particularly claims regarding God and the afterlife—is unknown or, depending on the form of agnosticism, inherently unknowable. Philosophers and […]