I have found the Master Key of Heaven that unlocks everything: C.H.R.I.S.T. Yes, I know it is an old story; but, oh, the newness of its wonders! Recently, I went on a tour for the Lord in the north of England. To me it has been a series of miracles of the love of Christ. […]
The Lord Jesus Christ dominates the Scriptures as the sun dominates our solar system. As the Eternal Son, He acts through creation and history. As the virgin’s Son, He joins the stream of our race, the tributary destined to unite the currents of Jew and Gentile, and to divide our river into two courses: one […]
Some time ago, I began to read the Bible carefully to study Bible characters. I read through the four Gospels, and my heart was moved. When I look over an audience and think of the wretchedness and misery that you and I do not see, that He does see, I think I can understand what […]
How deeply touching are the words of our Lord Jesus: “My soul is exceeding sorrowful” (Mt. 26:38). We do well to meditate upon them, because while our hearts overflow with praise as we recall what He has done, our spirits are subdued; and while we exult in all the blessing that He has secured for […]
Is Matthew’s genealogy any way to begin a best seller? Especially because after citing forty-two names, we notice that the last one—the subject of the biography—isn’t physically related to the others! Joseph, “as was supposed,” is His father only in a legal sense. Then we discover that the genealogy, being the royal line of Judah, […]
Malignant melanoma! A new word had entered our family’s vocabulary, a synonym for fear. It was February 1973 and we had been on the mission field in Lima, Peru for nine years. It had been more than long enough to prove the confidence we had put in the Lord. After eleven years of praying, asking, […]
It is fascinating to note that two celestial messengers transmitted two sets of information to two people—Mary and Joseph—and were recorded by two authors, Luke and Matthew. Instead of attesting the copy, therefore, in the mouth of only two witnesses, we may be certain that the account of the virgin birth is nothing but the […]
He knows our need of a king. He knows the hopeless anarchy, not only of a world, but of a heart, “without a king.” Is there a more desolate cry than “We have no king”? None to reverence and love, none to obey, none to guide and protect us and rule over us, none to […]
It is a peculiarity of Paul that the most ordinary of facts suggest to him the sublimest of truths. There is not an event he observes but he can find a road from it up to the cross. The love and the sacrifice of Christ form the focus to which every line of experience converges, […]