In John 14 four men ask four questions and the Lord gives four answers. It is interesting to note that a part of the Passover recorded in Exodus 12 was a question-and-answer period. When the children at the table asked: ”What mean ye by this service?” it was the responsibility of the father to explain […]
John 15 is the Lord’s teaching on the fruitful life. A barren Christian is an anomaly. It was never intended. The Lord said, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (Jn. 10:10). Yet, sad to say, barrenness abounds in this dry and thirsty land of our […]
My dad had a nominal Christian upbringing, but he quickly departed from it and launched into a life of sin. My mother married him with a similar experience. Together they raised four boys, and two girls–I was the youngest of this family of six children. My oldest sister was saved at the age of 17 […]
The Psalms, a hymnbook of the heart-born melodies of the redeemed, is in some parts 3,500 years old. Yet even this is late in the history of song. Before Moses and his multitude of former labor-camp slaves sang on the far side of the Red Sea (Ex. 15:1), before the patriarchs hummed a tune as […]
There is a difference between equality and sameness. Equality is a statement of value. God makes no difference between men and women when it comes to value. Paul makes that plain in Galatians 3:28: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are […]
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On board old sailing ships there were seamen whose job it was to measure the distance to the ocean floor as they drew toward shore. Their task was to “sound the depths.” Samuel Trevor Francis (1834-1925) explored another ocean. He sent out his measure, and then announced, “unfathomable.” Of Thee, then, and Thy love I […]
There is a saying, “Men’s evil deeds we write in brass; their virtues we write in water.” All the world knows of David’s adultery with Bathsheba. The unsparing honesty of God has set down in Holy Writ the whole painful story and the manner in which David engineered the death of Bathsheba’s husband. It was […]
From very early times the Jews arranged the canonical books of the Old Testament into three great groups, known as “the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings.” The Psalms belonged to the last division and often gave to it its name (Lk. 24:44). There is strong evidence that in the original order of the Writings, […]
Psalm 23 is pitched on a high personal note. No less than seventeen times do “me,” “my,” “mine” and “I” appear. It is David speaking of himself in personal relation to God, as a sheep to a Shepherd. His words can equally be the language of any true sheep about the “One Shepherd.” While it […]