CHRIST the SUPREME OFFERING: “Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God” (Eph 5:2). Leonard Sheldrake tells a story from the days when a plastic coin called a mill was used with purchases during rationing. One rolled at his feet at a bus stop, and he […]
“And now for a little while grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage” (Ezra 9:8). What a prayer! Judah […]
“Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord, “And like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?” (Jer 23:29). Christian apologist Bernard Ramm writes about the Bible and its critics: “A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the […]
When we domesticate animals for our benefit, we diminish their ability to fend for themselves. There’s another lesson among God’s menagerie. Job had once owned a large number of animals—“his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys” (Job 1:3). Imagine that—11,500 animals for service across his […]
CHRIST with the MIGHTY NAME: “And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong” (Acts 3:16). The infidel gives grudging proof to the power of Christ’s name by using, not the names of the founders of the world’s great religions, but only that Name when he curses. John wrote the purpose […]
“Thus says the Lord: ‘Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches; but let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness […]
In his biography by Johannes Gossner, Martin Boos (1762-1825), a Roman Catholic priest, tells how he was saved: “In 1788 or 1789 I visited a sick person respected for her deep humility and piety. I said to her, ‘You will die peacefully and happily.’ ‘Why so?’ she asked. ‘Because you have led such a holy […]
JESUS the JUDGE: “God…commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained” (Acts 17:30-31). George Whitfield and Ben Franklin were well acquainted. Franklin printed Whitfield’s sermons and invited him to stay with him when in Philadelphia. […]
“Let my supplication come before You; deliver me according to Your word” (Ps 119:170). Does the Lord hear me? This is the only place in the psalm where David almost repeats himself. The previous verse, which we already considered, says: “Let my cry come before You, O Lord; give me understanding according to Your word” […]