“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me” (Ps 51:10). What a practical two-pronged request! Lord, get me back on track, and then help me to keep going on it! This petition is crucial, for, as H.A. Ironside says: “This is the secret of so many unanswered prayers. […]
“Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound” (Rom 5:20). About the year 1900, evangelist Peter Bilhorn received a song, “The Bird with the Broken Wing.” Using the idea that “The bird with the broken pinion Never soars as high again,” it warned that a “life that sin had stricken, Never soared as high again.” […]
Look back and thank the Lord; look ahead and trust the Lord; look up and talk with the Lord. There are about 100 quotations or direct allusions to the Psalms in the New Testament. We might not think to use the Psalms as the basis for apologetic arguments, but that’s exactly how they are often […]
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CHRIST our SYMPATHIZER: “For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses” (Heb 4:15). Blessed double negative! Yes, He can, and does, sympathize with His struggling people. Never is this seen more clearly than in the words, “Jesus wept.” L.W.G. Alexander writes: More wonderful words than these are nowhere found […]
“Remove from me reproach and contempt, for I have kept Your testimonies” (Ps 119:22). Reproach means to be disgraced; contempt, to be disrespected. In a world that emphasizes perception rather than reality, and reputation more than character, it should be the desire of the believer to ruthlessly avoid anything that would bring dishonor on the […]
John Stott writes: “Note the recognizable sequence in the Gospels. When Jesus saw someone in need He had compassion, and when He had compassion He invariably acted. His compassion was aroused by the sight of need, and always issued in the alleviation of need. What His eye saw, His heart felt; and what His heart […]
The Pacific Garden Mission, founded in 1877 on the notorious Whiskey Row in Chicago’s South Loop, is the oldest continuously-serving rescue mission in America. It was the first place I preached after my honeymoon more than 50 years ago. Following the service, I chatted with the attendees. One man, a former medical doctor, had lost […]
Ever since man was expelled from the Garden, he’s been trying to pretend he’s in the “in” crowd. There’s nothing better than being at home with God, the meaning of the two words selected by David in Psalm 15:1—“Lord, who may abide in Your tabernacle? Who may dwell in Your holy hill?” There is within humankind a strong desire to […]
“Then Jacob said, ‘O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac,…I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant…” (Gen 32:9-10). C.H. Spurgeon writes: “I have a dear brother in Christ, Mr. Curme, who is the mirror of […]