This past week I was visiting in the Iron Range of the Minnesota northwoods at Storybook Lodge Christian Camp. Each day at meal-time, in an effort to shrink the growing evidence of my lack of exercise, I took a four-mile walk along the highway towards the little town of Biwabik. At the junction of the […]
Love is an essential ingredient to assembly life. The great love chapter of the Bible (1 Cor. 13) was not included in the poetic psalms but in the ever practical first letter to the Corinthians. The chapter is part of the section of Paul’s epistle dealing with order in the meetings of the local assembly, […]
The doctrinal preaching of the Word of God is a vital necessity. The proclamation of the Scriptures with clarity and precision is God’s method of transforming the lives of men and women. It is the authoritative link between the heart of God and the souls of men. The modern world has had enough of theories, […]
The high priest in ancient times needed to have compassion for the people with whom he worked. The Scripture states, “He can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also beset by weakness” (Heb. 5:2, NKJV). He must have compassion; the margin states “deal gently.” The Greek verb […]
Charles Frederick Hogg (1859-1943) used his outstanding gifts to raise the standards among the Lord’s servants and the church in general. Born into a godly family in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the year that revival swept the country, he was converted at the age of nineteen. Soon he was preaching on the streets of that […]
Where shall we find another whom we can compare with Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, in the love that she bore to her dead children, and the dead children of her lord? Of all the mothers that were ever in Israel, she has obtained first place in the book of life for constant and enduring […]
This spring when I heard a message on the topic of praying for unbelievers, I couldn’t help remembering when I was the subject of someone’s prayers. When I came to the University of Kansas campus in the fall of 1974, there were two things that I promised myself: 1) that I would never ever live […]
Quite a few of the Little Rock team enjoyed the hospitality of the Lord’s people en route to the outreach there. We were reminded of the words of John, who at the same time spoke of the Lord’s workers who “went out for the sake of the Name, taking nothing of the Gentiles” (3 Jn. […]
“What do you think of Christ?” The same question kept ringing out. What do you think of Christ? Where will you spend eternity? Contrary to popular opinion, I had never preached in the open-air on a campus before. I had been roped into it. I had been thinking, I’m going to go down there with […]