“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine” (Isa 43:1). Is this the God who first heard these words from His creature just after sin came into Eden: “I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself” (Gen 3:10)? When Harry Ironside was a […]
I think of my fellow-sinners; my companions in crime and guilt. I would fain make some suitable amends to them. And what can be more appropriate in that view than the resolution, with reference to them, and all my fellow men, “I will teach transgressors Thy ways, and sinners shall be converted to Thee” (Ps […]
The Jewish Levites were servants to the priests; the Gentile Nethinim were servants to the servants! According to University Hospitals’ website “The Science of Health,” the top five most stressful life events are the death of a loved one, divorce, a major illness or injury, job loss, and—moving! In the days of Ezra, it was […]
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CHRIST the LOVE WARRIOR: “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Rom 8:37). Amy Carmichael (1867–1951), served the Lord without furlough in India for 55 years. She served at Dohnavur in Tamil Nadu, which became a sanctuary for over one thousand children, many rescued from child prostitution. […]
“What man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?” (Mt 7:9). Do you ask the Lord for little things—like daily bread? Jesus said we should, didn’t He? Is there anything too little to ask Him? Or to put it the other way around, is anything at […]
In the fourth century, the “golden-mouthed” Chrysostom of Antioch wrote: “I do not think of Christ as God alone, or Man alone, but both together. For I know He was hungry, and I know that with five loaves He fed five thousand. I know He was thirsty, and I know that He turned the water […]
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” —John C. Maxwell As we examine the list of those who accompanied Ezra back to Jerusalem, we should notice the arrangement. “These are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me […]
CHRIST “the WISDOM of GOD”: “But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God” (1 Cor 1:24, 30). Paul writes that “the world through wisdom did not know God” (v 21). James adds that earthly wisdom is “sensual, demonic” and manifests itself in envy, self-seeking, confusion and every evil […]