Singing: This is a wonderful part of the Lord’s Supper. If you read through the Psalms, you see that singing was a large part of the worship experience then as well. Singing can lend an element of unity to a gathering—binding us together in common thoughts. It can stir your heart in devotion. However, it […]
How is it that the Blessed Hope came to us through the twists and turns of history? Today most of the visible leaders in the evangelical movement hold to a futuristic view of prophecy. By futuristic, I mean the view that most of the book of Revelation is yet to be fulfilled. Prominent radio preachers […]
Do you think we could sum up the message of the Old Testament in just three words? If so, I think they would be: Jesus is coming! You can see it on almost every page. The patriarchs pondered it. Job longed for a daysman between God and men “…that might lay His hand upon us […]
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The Gospel records of the New Testament make abundantly plain that their chief character, Jesus of Nazareth, was a real man, an actual figure of earthly history. This truth is not open to doubt or to serious question. From the standpoint of the ordinary reader who comes to these records with no preconceived ideas—no religious […]
In the volume of the book it is written of Me” (Heb. 10:7). Luther asks concerning this verse: What Book and what Person? The answers should be obvious: the Bible and Christ. These are two Words which man must never separate: the written Word, and the Incarnate Word, for these God has joined together. The […]
Mary’s story, as given [in Luke 1], is in fact two stories: the annunciation and the Magnificat. The one is Mary’s explanation of how she became pregnant before marriage; the other is her reaction to that pregnancy… Mary knows for sure that she is to be the mother of the Son of God. How will […]
What Reason rejects, Faith accepts—when it has the clear declarations of God—and bows in holy wonder at the work of the Trinity in the preparation of a Saviour for the world. Mary as a virgin was a “young, unmarried woman who had preserved the purity of her body,” to use Cruden’s phrase. And not only […]
The question before us is, “Is Jesus God?” I have purposely worded the question that way. If I had asked, “Is Jesus the Son of God,” there are many who would readily say “yes.” But what they are saying is that He is “a son of God in the same way everyone else is.” They […]
Augustus was sitting on the throne of the Roman empire, and the touch of his finger could set the machinery of government in motion over well-nigh the whole of the civilized world. He was proud of his power and wealth, and it was one of his favorite occupations to compile a register of the populations […]