“Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God” (Col 4:12). Now that’s a prayer request! F.B. Meyer wrote: “Amid all the crowding interests of Epaphras’s visit to Rome, his heart was […]
James M. Gray, longtime Dean at Moody Bible Institute, tells his story: “I regularly attended church. At 14, when I knew ‘the creed, the Lord’s Prayer, and the ten commandments’ I was ‘confirmed in the most holy faith’ by a bishop of our church, and was taught that I had become a child of God. […]
“Oh, sweet the joy this sentence gives: ‘I know that my Redeemer lives!’” —Thomas S. Monson I’d like to linger longer on these beautiful words: “I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last on the earth; and after my skin is destroyed, this I know, that in my flesh I shall see […]
CHRIST in the KNOW: “His disciples said to Him, ‘See, now You are speaking plainly, and using no figure of speech! Now we are sure that You know all things, and have no need that anyone should question You. By this we believe that You came forth from God’” (Jn 16:29-30). What was it that […]
“We remember, while He was still alive, how that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise’” (Mt 27:63). “When He had risen from the dead, His disciples remembered…” (Jn 2:22). His enemies remembered after He died, but His disciples didn’t remember until after He rose! J.K. Johnston tells a story about a town that […]
Historian Arnold Toynbee, in an essay titled Christianity and Civilization, presented at Oxford University, said: “Democracy is another leaf from the book of Christianity, which has also, I fear, been torn out and, while perhaps not misread, has certainly been half emptied of meaning by being divorced from its Christian context and secularized; and we […]
Truth is progressively revealed, but that doesn’t deny that seeds of future full-grown truths are found early on. It would be hard to overstate Job’s distress. One day he believed that God had blessed him in every sphere of life—physically, emotionally, domestically, financially, socially, and spiritually. Then, in a matter of hours, his blessings turned […]
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WHAT the SON was “MADE” (ginomai) or BECAME in His RESURRECTION and EXALTATION (Part 3): “God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ” (Acts 2:36). “Being made so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they” (Heb 1:4). As well, “By so […]
“I have done justice and righteousness; do not leave me to my oppressors. Be surety for Your servant for good; do not let the proud oppress me” (Ps 119:121-122). David is unabashed in laying out his concerns to the Lord. (Would I like my prayers published in the world’s all-time best seller?) David is under […]