Three years before Patrick Hamilton was burned at the stake outside St. Andrews Castle, young David Beaton, nephew of the Archbishop James Beaton, sailed over from France to work under his uncle. David had studied at the Scottish University in Paris beside brilliant scholars such as Patrick Hamilton. Very likely they knew one another. But […]
The close of Matthew 14 presents a scene in the life of Peter on which we may dwell with profit for a few moments. It furnishes a good illustration of his own touching inquiry, “Lord, to whom shall we go?” Our Lord, having fed the multitude, and sent His disciples across the sea, retired to […]
The whole Sabbath day Christ lay in the grave. But the resurrection morning comes, and Peter and John, told by Mary Magdalene that the Lord had been taken from the sepulcher, run to the grave, and Peter is outrun by John. I know some say that Peter was older than John, but I do not […]
Peter had been a leader among the believers in Jerusalem. They had been accustomed to rely on his judgment. They had learned to love him for the manliness of his nature and the generous impulses of his heart; and they could hardly conceive what the Church would be like without him. So it was not […]
I’m not happy to tell you that I live in the same state as the disqualified pathologist, Jack “the Dripper” Kevorkian, Dr. Death. But his diabolical campaign to legalize “physician-assisted suicide” (PAS) is just one of a dozen or more frontal assaults that are charging across the moral landscape at the end of the Twentieth […]
Many a spiritual woman has endured less than adequate ministry in silence. If we agree with the silence of the women, make sure the message of the men is profitable. This was the burden of Paul, when writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to the Corinthians, commanding guidelines in public meetings. Here are […]
On Resurrection Sunday, this year, I was speaking with a beloved servant of the Lord, “What was the biggest need among the Lord’s people at the present time?” I asked. We spoke about the very encouraging crop of youth people in North America, the best I have seen in my lifetime. We discussed the need […]
The Scotland of today was at one time the poorest and most backward nation of Europe, bullied and bantered over by France and England. No one could appreciate the changes in Scotland, spiritually or otherwise without recognizing the Protestant Reformation in Scotland under John Knox, and no one can appreciate that Reformation without recognizing the […]
Genetic engineering is the technology of modifying the genes of an organism to bring about change. Scientists have done this in a sense for millennia through selective breeding to increase crops, create cows that would give more milk and so on. Indeed, Jacob did this more than thirty-five hundred years ago (Gen. 30:41-42). However, it […]