I was to be giving a talk on evidence for God at a college in Appleton, Wisconsin. Two atheists near the front were acting as a tag team to dominate the session with their arguments. I wanted to be polite but the time was disappearing. I cried to the Lord to intervene. When they paused […]
“You are in for trouble,…if you think what you do in the dark can’t be seen” (Isa 29:15, CEV). Haman is a very different man as he slouches his way home after his humiliating experience, leading Mordecai in honor through the city streets. Mortified by Mordecai! “Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered” (Est […]
CHRIST FAITHFUL and TRUE: “These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God” (Rev 3:14). Our Lord Jesus, as the Amen, makes good every promise of God (2 Cor 1:20). As the Faithful and True Witness, He adds His own declaration to stand by us in every […]
“The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace” (Num 6:24-26). The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in 1947, were at that point the oldest extant manuscripts of Scripture. But the most ancient […]
Mark Cahill writes: “If it doesn’t matter on the day you die, it doesn’t matter. Will it matter on the day you die if you made a million dollars or owned two houses…? No. Will it matter on the day you die if you knew the Bible better than you knew today’s newspaper? Yes. Will […]
A man hated and slated to die—but now riding in kingly honor. This reminds me of Someone! “What shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?” (Est 6:6). Thinking that he personally is the subject of the king’s desire—what narcissist wouldn’t?—Haman waxes eloquent. Go into the royal wardrobe and pick out some […]
CHRIST the WORKER: “I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work” (Jn 9:4). Our Lord, while on earth, was a tireless worker. He worked 12-hour days at a minimum (see Jn 11:9). From His youth, He declared, “I must be […]
“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 […]