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 […]
Need power and light for the days ahead? Paul, writing to Philemon, wished that the communication of his friend’s faith might become efficient by the full knowledge of every good thing that was in him in Christ Jesus (v. 6). There was evidently a danger of inefficiency, through ignorance of his spiritual inheritance. This incident […]
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 […]