“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all” (2 Cor 13:14). Only the Lord knows how many times this request has been borrowed to pray over the people of God. And no wonder! It is marked by succinctness, being just […]
In Good News is for Sharing, Leighton Ford recounts: “I was speaking at an open-air crusade in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Billy Graham was to speak the next night and had arrived a day early. He came incognito and sat on the grass at the rear of the crowd. Because he was wearing a hat and […]
Would you drive a car if, every time you went out in it, you got lost? Some folks get lost every time they open the Bible. What they need are some landmarks. […]
God’s mysterious questions are more worthwhile than man’s professed answers to life. You can’t avoid the cosmic battle between good and evil. You are the battlefield. The book of Job may appear to be exceptional in the way the conflict is engaged, but—one way or another—we all find ourselves in the enemy’s crosshairs. G.K. Chesterton opined that […]
CHRIST SUPREMELY ABLE: “‘Do you believe that I am able to do this?’ They said to Him, ‘Yes, Lord” (Mt 9:26). “…He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them” (Heb 7:25). “Now to Him who is able to […]
“O Lord God of hosts, who is mighty like You, O Lord? Your faithfulness also surrounds You. You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, You still them” (Ps 89:8-9). Here’s an idea that can change our whole perspective on life. The same God rules the raging of, and speaks His stillness […]
“The scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge” (Prov 1:22). “The new rebel,” writes G.K. Chesterton, “is a skeptic, and will not entirely trust anything…the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the […]
If the purpose of life is a life of purpose, we will need to have God’s wisdom to know what it is. When we turn the page on Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, we leave the historical books of the Old Testament. We now enter what is labeled the Wisdom and Poetry section of the Bible: […]
CHRIST the INCARNATE MISSIONARY: “In all things He had to be made like His brethren” (Heb 2:17). Our Lord not only became a man, He became a Jew, a Galilean, a Nazarene. How willing am I to enter into the way of life (sin apart) of those I hope to reach? Cam Townsend, founder of […]