CHRIST, REVEALER of the FATHER: “I have glorified You on the earth” (Jn 17:4). How the Lord Jesus wanted His followers to know and love His Father! He explained that believers’ prayers are not—as many pagan religions teach—an attempt to bend natural law by influencing the Creator. “When you pray,” instructed the Lord Jesus, “say, […]
“Please, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to the Lord your God, …that the Lord your God may show us the way in which we should walk and the thing we should do” (Jer 42:2-3). Rowland Bingham, involved in the early days of the Sudan Interior Mission, soon discovered why […]
“I being in the way, the Lord led me” (Gen 24:27). I was packing for a coastal boat trip in Iceland. With a prayer for guidance, I was selecting some leaflets that explained God’s good news when my eye fell on some French ones. I took them with me…After steaming round the coast for some […]
It’s been said that coincidence is God’s pseudonym when He wishes to remain anonymous. The New Testament has two words for time. One is chronos, the passage of time. The other is kairos, an event in time, as when we say, “It’s time for action.” Successful living includes both maintaining faithful regularity as time (chronos) passes, but […]
CHRIST a PLANT of RENOWN (Ezek 34:29). Christianity is eternity in time. With the appearance of Christ a new sprig was planted into the withered ground of the world of man. And all who have been grafted into it have become partakers of eternal life. Thus Christians have found the fountain of eternal youth. The […]
“Restore us, O God; cause Your face to shine, and we shall be saved!” (Ps 80:3). Sanctification: the process by which weak, failing children of God are progressively conformed to be like the perfect Son of God. Henry Drummond writes: “Shall a mechanical experiment succeed infallibly and the one vital experiment of humanity remain a […]
The message we preach is “the gospel of the grace of God” (Acts 20:24) for now grace reigns in life and through righteousness (Rom 5:17, 21). It is “the gospel of His Son” (Rom 1:9) for God gave His only Son that He might bring many sons to glory (Heb 2:10). It is also “the […]
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to confront it with God’s help and overcome it. Haman’s time bomb had been triggered. “The couriers went out, hastened by the king’s command; and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan.” Having accomplished what they thought was a good day’s work, “the king and Haman sat down to […]
CHRIST OUR SUFFICIENCY: “Christ is all and in all” (Col 3:11). After his conversion in 1834, Isaac Marsden, a drygoods salesman, “went everywhere preaching the word” (Acts 8:4), in the streets, markets, pubs, wherever he could find a hearing. Often criticized for his bombastic style, he nonetheless saw thousands saved. Here is some of his […]