“Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit” (Rom 15:13). Do you recognize the household name who wrote this? “I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. […]
Just twenty years after the Cross had been lifted up, the messengers of the gospel were spoken of as those who had “turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6), and the faith of the Thessalonian church “sounded out” as with a trumpet blast “in every place” (1 Thess 1:8). Soon after, we read that the […]
“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting system through which God speaks to us.” —Goethe Notice carefully the following words: “From whose womb comes the ice? And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth? The waters harden like stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen” (Job 28:29-30). There are thousands of […]
CHRIST the PATRIARCH’S DELIGHT: Abraham, said the Lord Jesus, “rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad” (Jn 8:56). But did he know he was taking one of Messiah’s own titles when we read: “And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness” (Gen 15:6)? The […]
“O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt…Remember Your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; do not look on the stubbornness of this people,…lest the land from which You brought us should say, ‘Because the Lord was not able […]
“‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance” (Lk 15:6-7). Some of my happiest recollections as a young believer are the times when we […]
“He has made the earth by His power, He has established the world by His wisdom” (Jer 10:12). Let’s pause a little longer to think about water. “Who has divided a channel for the overflowing water…to cause it to rain on a land where there is no one, a wilderness in which there is no man; to […]
JESUS the GIFT: “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son…” (1 Jn 4:10). Lyman Abbott tells of a missionary from India who recounted how she went with another lady to a low-caste Hindu village. The women were sitting in a circle on the ground. […]
“Let my cry come before You, O Lord; give me understanding according to Your word” (Ps 119:169). Five times in this monumental psalm (vv 34, 73, 125, 144, and here) David prays, “Give me understanding.” The state where I live has a commonly heard refrain: “Stay in school!” They tell young people that it is […]