Taking the taste test made all the difference. Vigilance is the price of safety. Two Bible texts might well be written over this account, namely, the words of the Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 22:14: “Many are called, but few are chosen.” And the Apostle Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 10:18: “Not he that […]
Singular men of God in a pluralistic society. It is the sad record of ecclesiastical history that the Church has generally been unfaithful to the call of God. It is obvious, because of this, that restoration collectively is no longer possible. Christians are sometimes misled, even as they think of the revivals effected by God, […]
A helpful present application to a story from the distant past. The variety of gifts in the Church is in itself a forcible reminder of the indispensability of any member. All are essential to the well-being of the whole. Since all are unique, it also follows that the work given to one cannot be […]
What an eloquent “Moreover”! “Moreover I want her to be my wife.” Nothing but Christ and a definite personal link with Him will avail for us in our need. We have to learn under divine teaching the utter inadequacy of the legal principle, and this is brought out typically in Ruth chapter 4. Man […]
We know where the field is, too! Boaz was a “mighty man of wealth.” This expression is not found in Scripture anywhere else, but you know that Boaz is a picture of the Lord Jesus, our Kinsman. There is no reason why God’s people should live as paupers; everything our “mighty man of wealth” […]
The land called India, with the immensity of its need, cries out for our hearts. As of May 11, 2000 the population of India officially reached one billion—not one billion statistics but one billion souls for whom Christ died. I cannot take it in. It doesn’t compute. I read the numbers but what do they […]
Wrapped up in dirty clothes lay a piece of everlasting. When I went to southern India in 1946, there was an orphanage, a school, and a hospital on a mission station in Karnataka state, 100 miles south of Bangalore. At first, I worked as a nurse in the hospital and lived in the orphanage with […]
“Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war” (Jer. 51:20). India is a colorful land and God has sent some colorful Christians to labor there. One of those at the fore was Silas Fowler Fox . “No one sleeps when Silas speaks” was his billing. Silas was born December 22, 1893, just outside Medicine […]
Gospel Missions of India is one possibility. If you are exercised to help with the great need of spreading the gospel in India, especially the needy north, how do you go about it? Wisdom and discernment are needed because quantities of misplaced money can ruin a work quickly. But a shrug of the shoulders because […]