JESUS the GIFT of GOD: “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” (2 Cor 9:15). Adoniram Judson laid the foundation for a remarkable work of God in Burma. But as a young man he fell into Deism (God as absentee landlord) in college under the influence of a fellow student, Jacob Eames. But upon […]
“Praise the Lord! Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in His mighty firmament! Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him according to His excellent greatness! Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; praise Him with the lute and harp! Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; praise Him with stringed instruments and […]
Confucianism: The insistence that human beings are perfectible through personal and communal endeavor. The main religious belief of China looks back to Confucius (the anglicized form of Kunk Fu-tzu, or Kung the Master) about 1000 years after Moses. Confucianism is an optimistic humanism that assumes man is basically good, being opposed to the biblical doctrine […]
Dr Mackay found it just as impossible to get rid of the Bible his mother gave him as an aborigine throwing away an old boomerang. […]
Every one of God’s creatures should be valued, but if they want respect, that needs to be earned. Everyone wants to be taken seriously. Job’s friends—although they decided to intervene in his tragic situation, traveled some distance to be with him, and stayed for a considerable period of time—have hardly taken seriously anything he said. […]
CHRIST the WILLINGLY POOR ONE: “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery (harpagmos, a thing to be seized) to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation…and…humbled Himself…” (Php 2:5-8). Jim Elliott, who gave his life […]
“I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you” (2 Ki 20:5). It doesn’t seem that Hezekiah prayed for a longer life, although that goes without saying if the Lord healed him! But 15 years extra? Some think he shouldn’t have asked for more time on earth because during […]
Hy Pickering, born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, was raised in a religious home, but after being christened and confirmed, found he had not been converted. Not far from where he lived, some meeting began in a barn. He said the preacher “made no pretense at eloquence, wore no surplice, used no notes, and feared no man. The […]
The danger of always dwelling on the past is that I might miss the possibilities of the present. It’s a common response, when the present seems unbearable, to try to escape into the past. There are local churches still run by elders long dead and buried. “Brother So-and-so wouldn’t like that,” they say. Or, “That […]