The ability to remember is one factor that distinguishes from the animal world. The elderly (and not so elderly) tell us they can remember events of 30 years ago, but cannot remember where they put their glasses. We’ll leave the explanation for the mechanics of our memories with the experts. But we do know God […]
Each of the four creatures mentioned in Proverbs 30:24-28 presents the believer in a different light, shadowing another view of his earthly path–the path of faith, conflict, and conquest. We get some very practical lessons here for everyday Christian living. Notice in the opening verse that stress is laid on the feebleness of these creatures. […]
The usual concept of power which enlightened men have held through the centuries is undergoing an enforced revision. Men have always looked for power in the prodigious, but many are learning today that it is not found there. Power resides rather in the small and insignificant. The infinitesimal microbe has spread greater devastation than all […]
The mysteries of the seed have always intrigued me. There, latent in a little bit of tissue, is the life of a great tree. Seeds that lie dormant for many years often keep this potential and, when planted, send down their roots and push a slender shoot up to drink in the sunlight. Soon what […]
In our English language some of the tenderest, sweetest and most endearing, yet most elusive words are diminutives. Webster’s Dictionary tells us that ‘Charley’ is the diminutive of ‘Charles.’ Her Majesty the Queen might call Prince Charles, ‘Charley,’ but we may not do so: it is too intimate, too endearing a name, for a stranger […]
She was a real caricature! Any artist would have delighted to pull out a pencil and sketch her. Little and old–well, she was in her 80’s–rather a long nose and a somewhat pointed chin. She wore an old, oatmeal gray overcoat, sometimes buttoned in the right holes and sometimes not. On her head was a […]
I suppose we’ve all had to learn the hard way that we carry a potent force with us everywhere we go. Some of the time it lies there inert, seemingly harmless. As harmless as a venomous snake in the grass, says James (3:8)! Philip Burrows Strong captures the wisdom of the ancients regarding the tongue […]
When I was a boy, we always sat in a circle to remember the Lord. Or at least they sat in the circle–I was not in fellowship so I sat “at the back” with those who had not been received by the assembly. There was a definite “in” and “out” to the assembly in those […]
“The Lord’s Supper”–these words occur at the conclusion of 1 Corinthians 11:20, and refer to one of the three symbolic ordinances given to the Church in the New Testament. I would like to ask you to consider what I believe to be an accurate translation (not a paraphrase, but a translation) of these words, which […]