It is not always true that generosity is the grace of kings. It ought to be, but as Paul remarked to the Corinthians, it was the “deep poverty” of the Macedonian Christians coupled with “the abundance of their joy” that “abounded unto the riches of their liberality” (2 Cor. 8:2). Of course, if the truth […]
God’s wonderful Word actually begins before the beginning in Genesis 1:1. The Lord lets us in on the pre-planning that occurred in the divine counsels before time’s clock began ticking. He has “made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself” (Eph. 1:9). We […]
From that spot in the Lake District of central England, the lofty view looking down Derwentwater has made overcomers out of otherwise common men. For a victorious location, the town of Keswick was chosen for annual conventions that began in the 1870’s under the leadership of Robert Pearsall and Hannah Whitall Smith (author of The […]
As I sat in my cozy living room…in my comfortable apartment…in my hometown, I remembered the short poem, “Only one life, ’twill soon be past. Only what’s done for Christ will last.” For several months my heart had been burdened to move to Little Rock, AR to join the believers who had moved there to […]
The Lord Jesus tells us in John 12, “Except the grain of wheat falling into the ground die, it abides alone; but if it die, it bears much fruit.” Life is in the grain of wheat, but there is a shell, a very hard shell on the outside. As long as that shell is not […]
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world” (Jas. 1:27). Have you ever been challenged, as a believer, to become actively involved in the life of an underprivileged or unwanted child? There is a tremendous […]
What preacher does not delight to quote John 3:16? To what Christian are not its wonderful words familiar? Is it not the best known gospel text? Who can estimate the number that have been led to the Saviour by its message of love? But who stops to think that there is another John 3:16 in […]
“And the women also, which came with Him from Galilee, followed after, and beheld the sepulcher, and how His body was laid. And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment” (Lk. 23:55-56). Think about these women for a moment. They had just returned from the funeral […]
The poor man is the man without a margin. His income, even when it does come in–and he has no assurance that it will not fail–barely covers the irreducible minimum of the subsistence expenditure of his family. Life for him is a straitened business, in which he has no room to move about, no sense […]