What guides your decisions in life? Are you swept along merely by circumstances, or do you find direction in God’s truth? Bethlehem was going through lean times. Bethlehem (“the house of bread”) was held in the grip of a severe drought. It was too dry for the barley and wheat to germinate. The food supply […]
Mrs. Edith Schaeffer was once asked how she could stand being married to the same man for 40 years. She answered, “He’s not the same man that I married.” After fifty-two years of marriage, my wife says the same thing about her husband. Both of us, in fact, have changed. One of the areas of […]
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, […]
No country was so transformed by the Reformation as was Scotland. Before the mid-1500s, Roman Catholicism was the official church there. Two years before John Knox returned from Geneva, certain men did “band thame selfis” to maintain “the trew preaching of the Evangell of Jesus Christ.” Scotland’s long, hard struggle with England in the 1500s […]
The church is God’s idea. We can’t help but notice the forceful and determined words of the Lord Himself in Matthew 16:18, “I will build My Church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew has already shown the increasing hostility against Israel’s Messiah. It is at this point we hear of […]
The title is the central verse and central thought of beautiful Psalm 23. It stands out in relation to six views of the Christian life which are given in the psalm: MY NEED AS A SINNER “I shall not want.” His work on the Cross is the pledge of my salvation. Green pastures and still […]
God’s Word is indestructible. “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away” (Mt. 24:35). Every conceivable effort has been made to destroy the Bible. Copies have been burned in huge bonfires; edicts have been issued against circulating it and reading it; critics have tried to pick flaws on virtually every […]
It’s a moot point that the 21st century begins on January 1, 2001, not 2000. In fact, due to the mixup in changing to the Gregorian calendar from the Julian in 1582, we’ve actually been in the new millennium for several years already. But it isn’t just the passing of this significant date that we […]
As the present millennium winds to a close and a new millennium looms before us, many are speculating concerning what we should expect in this new age. Newsweek magazine recently disclosed that there are 239 different web sites on the Internet exploring the uncertainty of the coming millennium. Philosophers, scientists, sociologists, and religious leaders are […]