It has been my lot in life to celebrate my birthday just three days into the new year. That means I have little time to recover from the painful exercise of assessing my performance in the last year of the 1900s. I try to soothe my forlorn heart with the hope of a better year […]
If you had one son in whom you found unspeakable delight, would it not be normal as a father to want more like him? So it is with the Father who has purposed to have a vast family of human sons transformed to be like His only begotten Son. It is evident that the Father […]
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service (Rom. 12:1). YIELD YOUR BODY Why does Paul talk about yielding our bodies? Because our bodies are the battlefield in spiritual warfare. We read time and again in […]
Why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ…So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God (Rom. 14:10-12). Rudyard Kipling wrote: I keep six honest serving men, They taught me all I knew; […]
I hesitated to write about Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661) because I thought no one would believe me. In this frivolous day, when a preacher tells an obligatory joke at the opening of every sermon, is there anyone left who can understand a man like Samuel Rutherford? His letters were flights into heaven, his pastoral labors daunting, […]
Sin had interposed such a barrier between God and man that to man, in the condition in which he is found by nature, God is not only unseen but unknown. Hence at Athens, the very center of human wisdom, an altar was erected “to the unknown God” (Acts 17:23). To know God is the highest […]
Giving away the good news. The best message. The greatest need. Unlimited opportunities. I believe that the Lord has endowed women with a special ability to share the gospel. Most women are people-oriented. We build relationships easier than men do. Women often have children in their homes and under their nurture many more hours than […]
Architects must be in an impish mood when they design houses like ours. No doubt, sitting at their drawing tables (or computers) their minds wander back to the days of their childhood and they fondly recall some of their happiest memories. It’s the hour between supper and the call for bed–the sweetest hour of the […]
All who have studied the Psalms must have noticed many prayers there which God’s children would do well to make their own for personal use. From these I select seven as being vitally important for every believer. Psalm 17:5–“Hold up my goings in Thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.” Beset with snares and pitfalls, […]