“Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying…” (Neh 1:8). Nehemiah clearly was “instant in prayer.” His first-person narrative (one of the few in Scripture) is a running conversation with the Lord. Notice 4:1-6. When Sanballat and Tobiah started hurling mockery over the wall at his workers, Nehemiah simply included the […]
“That in nothing I shall be ashamed, but with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death” (Php 1:20). In the same spirit, Jim Elliot prayed: “Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be […]
Hallmark, landmark, trademark, watermark, postmark—all are used to identify for a purpose. As I perused this last section of Job’s final appeal, I couldn’t help but think, “What a fine neighbor to have!” No wicked man could even think like this, let alone act like it. For centuries it was held that friends should be […]
The INCALCULABLE CHRIST: The gift of Christ to us is indescribable—anekdiegetos, “not able to describe or declare fully” (2 Cor 9:15) and the joy we have as a result of believing is unutterable—aneklaletos, “beyond one’s ability to divulge” (1 Pet 1:8). His ways in our lives are unsearchable—anexereunetos, with still more to know after being […]
“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly…” (Ps 1:1). In this dramatic way the Book of Psalms opens, an introduction to the whole collection. It has been pointed out that the word “blessed” (Heb, ashrei) is plural and makes an exclamation, “O the blessednesses of that man…!” So the […]
“I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications…be made for all men…For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim 2:1-4). During the English Keswick Week of 1925, Irish evangelist W.P. Nicholson […]
“When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and humbles…Christians…you may expect a revival.” —Charles Finney Since Job has taken such pains to document as many misdeeds as he can, we can’t rush past. First, he talks about the surprising co-conspirators a sinner may call on to help with his crimes: “my eyes” (Job 31:1), “my foot” (v 5), “my […]
Read More… from October 21, 2025 — Job’s Catastrophic Catalog
CHRIST the GLORY BEARER: “And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place…And they shall hang upon him all the glory of […]
“‘Give me a blessing; since you have given me land in the South [Negev], give me also springs of water.’ And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs” (Jdg 1:15). Today we’d say Achsah was a chip off the old block, like her father Caleb, eager to possess her possession. The word […]