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 […]
Submission and a close relative, obedience, are not the most popular topics of the day, but they do play a significant role in the life of the assembly. Here are a few exhortations to obedience: “Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that […]
His mother penned this in her Bible, “July 22, 1840. This day delivered of a son, Caleb Jason. The Lord have mercy on my son.” At seventeen, a defiant Caleb Jason Baker (1840-1918) left Sussex, England for America. But the God who hears and answers prayers is not stymied by the distance from Hailsham to […]
Today, as never before, the practice of the Lord’s Supper stands in jeopardy. There are many who are questioning its significance. Others are trivializing its importance. Some, who tell us that “new wineskins” are needed, are now celebrating the Lord’s Supper on Wednesday evenings, or at birthday parties and wedding anniversaries.1 Others allege that the […]
The Lord Jesus, when here on the earth, was the only perfect Man this world has ever seen. He was all and always perfect, under the eye of God and before men–perfect in thought, perfect in word, and perfect in action. In Him every moral quality met, and this in perfect proportion and manifestation. No […]
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 […]