Having just greeted my family, we were walking from the airport terminal to the car. With enthusiasm characteristic of a three-year-old, my older son burst out, “Daddy, I know my Sunday School verse! Do you want to hear it?” As a dutiful father, but lacking the same enthusiasm, I responded, “Yes, son. What is it?” […]
It was 1968. My dad was making his first visit “home” to Scotland after a 23-year absence. As a family we were able to join him on his journey down Memory Lane. A few things had changed. We stood on a knoll at a place called the Green Knowe, and looked down on what had […]
“And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man” (Lk. 2:52, NASB). What we think of Christ is the most important thing that can be said about us. So said a preacher I once heard, and I believe that what he said is the absolute truth. Nothing can […]
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables (2 Tim. 4:3-4). We live in a day when Christ-centered ministry is viewed […]
As a youth, Donald was “as proud as a peacock, and as empty as a drum,” and yet he “said” prayers night and morning, for fear that God would smite him if he didn’t. Then one day while Ross was walking alone among the mountain heather, returning home after visiting a dying brother, he saw […]
“According to Thy manifold mercies Thou gavest the saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies” (Neh. 9:27). We are sometimes inclined to ask, “Of what use is the book of Judges? What lessons is it intended to teach? To what period does it answer in the history of the salvation of […]
By the grace and mercy of God, I became a Christian just before my twentieth birthday. Until then, most of the teaching about God and Jesus Christ that I had heard was from the Catholic churches I had attended near my home in Stamford, Connecticut. One very noteworthy event that occurred during the days when […]
If ever there was a case which we might have thought would have repelled Infinite Goodness and Infinite Purity, it is that described in Luke 8. No leper-house more loathsome or polluted than this! Joined to his filthy idols–the trail of the serpent in every chamber of imagery–Christ might well have said, “Let him alone!” […]
The history of Samson is one of sin and sadness, folly and failure. Yet, in spite of this, we do well to remember his noble qualities. He was a man of faith (Heb. 11:32). He delivered Israel from the Philistines and ruled as a judge in Israel for 20 years. Furthermore, he was a man […]