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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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 […]
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 […]
The Old and New Testaments are one organic whole. The opening verse of Matthew 1 is the golden link which unites these two divisions of the inspired volume. Then follows the genealogy of the glorious Person so long expected and now introduced to us. The inspired Book is thus the history of two men. In […]
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 […]
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 […]
I do not propose to discuss this question from a biological or a medical standpoint, fascinating beyond description though such a study would be. The times are too stern for trifling with a subject which is one of the essential foundations of Christianity. It is therefore as a Christian physician, a humble follower of Luke, […]
We must believe, according to certain critics of the Scriptures and the founders of false religions, that men are sufficient unto their own salvation—there is no need for a virgin-born Saviour. Others declare that the virgin birth is a mystery beneath the acceptance of modern minds. There can be no controversy with those of the […]
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan has a persona of toughness. The mining and logging history of the region have made it the land of austere, hard-bitten men. But the servants of Christ who have been sent there have often been gentlemanly folk. Leonard Sheldrake worked out of Sault Ste. Marie. The bookish Joe Balsam came […]