Here the Lord directs our minds to the essential feature of the kingdom of heaven, namely, the intermingling of good and evil. “The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind.” If we consider how many formalists; there are who put the means of […]
Many of the great commentators have come to the conclusion concerning the parable of the woman and the leaven in Matthew 13 that the woman is the Church, the leaven is the gospel, and the three measures of meal represents humanity. Therefore, hiding the leaven (the gospel) in the meal (humanity) means that the gospel […]
The treasure and the pearl have been accepted by many, down the years, as pictures of the Lord Jesus Christ; and the sinner, discovering the beauty and worth of the Saviour, willingly gives up all to obtain Him. The idea found its way into our hymnology, and we sometimes sing, I’ve found the Pearl of […]
Scores of remarkable missionary stories in this century have been full of drama. We wonder, while so many have laid down their lives in China, Russia, the Congo and elsewhere, how is it that the muffled footsteps by that stretch of sand on the Curaray River still reverberate around us. It happened on the eastern […]
A testimony should talk. Why so? Because the proof of the pudding is in the eating. A genuine Christian experience is hard to refute, in many cases, impossible. All attempts to contradict such testimonies only reveal their weakness in the presence of genuineness and truth. When stock was taken of the early Christians, it was […]
The letter was posted from the royal palace at Susa in the year 535. Traveling no doubt by horse, mule, and dromedary express, it was carried across the Tigris River, up the Euphrates Valley, skirting the Arabian Desert, along the Bekka Valley, past the towering Mount Hermon, down the Damascus Road, along the shores of […]
True peace is a product of righteousness. “The fruit of righteousness shall be peace” (Isa. 32:17). God’s discipline of His sons has in view a harvest in them of “the peaceable fruit of righteousness” (Heb. 12:11). Our Lord Jesus Christ, illustrated by Melchizedek, is “King of righteousness, and after that…King of peace” (Heb. 7:2). James […]
“I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some” (1 Cor. 9:22). Paul’s heart desire was to win the lost for Christ. Unbelievers, whether Jew or Gentile, slave or free, were all to be reached for the Saviour. Eternal punishment and the Lake of Fire were living realities. […]
Is there a place in the church of God for a man that loves a fight, and whose nickname is “Undaunted Dick”? If the struggle is the good fight of faith, then the answer is yes. Richard Weaver (1827-1896) did not enjoy a light-hearted upbringing. His Christian mother was unequally yoked, and one of young […]