A Christmas Story by the Fireside
Christmas greetings from your friends at Uplook Ministries! This story reminds us that it’s a good time to be thankful—and thoughtful, too. […]
Author: Bill Nicholson
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December 20 Petition Mission
“David therefore pleaded with God for the child…David perceived that the child was dead…So David arose…and he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped.…And he said, ‘…Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him…’” (2 Sam 12:16-23). A friend who had lost two children told me how he found comfort […]
December 20
Will and Peter Pell once were preaching at a conference in Hamilton, ON. At lunch, a woman asked if they would visit her unsaved brother in the hospital. When they arrived, the nurse told them the man had been in a coma for some time, a detail the sister had not given them! But they […]
December 20, 2024 — Good Riddance!
Some people seem to make it their ambition to demonstrate how evil the human heart can be. It’s a good thing Jehoshaphat didn’t live to see the horrendous results of his links with Ahab and Ahaziah, kings of Israel; worse still, the awful consequences of the marriage alliance he allowed between his son Jehoram and […]
December 19 Petition Mission
“He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing” (Zeph 3:17). The Lord really loves you. Calvary proves that! But does He like you? Does He seek your fellowship in order to, as the prophet writes, “rejoice over you with gladness,” or does […]
December 19
“He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” (Rev 13:16-17). I would […]
December 19, 2024 — Delighted Army, Disastrous Navy
One of history’s most remarkable battles had come to a glorious close. What did it all mean? Along with glory and praise to the Lord and the enrichment of the people, here’s the divine assessment of the battle’s other results. “Then they returned…to Jerusalem with joy, for the Lord had made them rejoice over their enemies” (2 […]
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December 18 Petition Mission
“Let such as love Your salvation say continually, ‘The Lord be magnified!’” (Ps 40:16). D.L. Moody writes: One of the happiest men I ever knew was a man in Dundee, Scotland, who had fallen and broken his back when he was a boy of fifteen. He had lain on his bed for about forty years, […]
December 18
In the book Two Pioneer Evangelists, the thrilling stories of Donald Ross and Donald Munro, is the following conversion account and the Holy Spirit’s convicting work: “One woman who attended gospel meetings held by Donald Ross in Annieshead [Scotland] was deeply convicted of sin,” but she “rose in a rage, saying that she would ‘never […]