“Out of the depths I have cried to You, O Lord” (Ps 130:1). “‘Perhaps to suffer,’ wrote the Swiss theologian Vinet, ‘is nothing else than to live deeply. Love and sorrow are the conditions of a profound life.’ A truer word was never spoken. There would indeed be no understanding of life at all did […]
J.J. Rouse, in Pioneer Work in Canada, tells the story of a man converted in his hometown of Oro, Ontario. He described the man as “a noted character, who for years had been a ringleader in…general mischief. It was in the autumn, and the threshing of the grain was taking place…There would be from 12 […]
Do you find yourself at a point in life when you have nothing but God? Then you’re right where He wants you. […]
Let me confess: It takes great restraint not to put exclamation points after every sentence! See! Timing is so crucial, and “As for God, His way is perfect” (Ps 18:30). Something seismic certainly had to happen between Esther’s Banquet 1 and Banquet 2 to turn the tide of human history. What REALLY BIG THING was God going […]
CHRIST the BELIEVER’S GAIN: “I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ” (Php 3:8). In October of 1810, twenty-year-old Ann Hasseltine wrote the following in her […]
“Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe Your commandments” (Ps 119:66). Translated literally, this verse could read, “Teach me (to have) good taste and discernment.” Adam Clarke comments: “Let me see and know the importance of Divine things, and give me a relish for them.” The airwaves in the West are full of […]
Sometimes younger believers don’t engage in witnessing because older Christians around them haven’t given them a good example. This is often true, but it is still not a good reason to be a dumb priest (see 1 Pet 2:9). If you have no good examples, then be one. Timothy, a young man, was called on […]
JESUS CHRIST…TODAY (Heb 13:8). No one is ever crushed by the burden of the day. It is when we add yesterday’s failures and tomorrow’s worries to our burden today that we are immobilized. The Lord is “a very present help.” Two important facts we need fastened like frontlets to our foreheads: Christ told us, “Sufficient […]
“The beasts of the field also cry out to You, for the water brooks are dried up” (Joel 1:20). This is the closest, Joel suggests, that animals come to praying. “The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God” (Ps 104:21). In Job 38:41, it’s Jehovah, not Joel, who asks, “Who […]