No, its not an exotic flower, although it is not common and its beauty and fragrance are a delight to those who find it. It is also one of the things in which God takes a great delight. Philoxenia means “love to strangers” and is translated as “hospitality” in the New Testament. The word is […]
A few years ago, the US government authorized the expenditure of billions of dollars in public funds to build and put in space the most spectacular telescope ever devised. But, alas, it didn’t work. The first trouble with Hubble was that it was out of focus. What Hubble’s builders did not realize was that the […]
An overseer “must be…given to hospitality” (1 Tim. 3:2). “Use hospitality one to another without grudging” (1 Pet. 4:9). “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers” (Heb. 13:2). After reading such verses, have you ever moaned and muttered, “Why don’t we do more to serve one another?” Perhaps the way I have worded that question too […]
The word “paroxysm” is the term used in Hebrews 10:24 (paroxusmos) to speak of the “stimulating alongside” that should be practiced by Christians to motivate others to love and good works. The word is utilized only one other time in the New Testament, and that in a negative sense, in Acts 15:39. There Paul and […]
Evelyn Johnson first noticed it a year previously. There was a problem in her throat–hoarseness and difficulty in swallowing, and at the same time there was a pronounced weakness in her right leg. Not to worry; perhaps if she waited, it would go away. When it didn’t, she went to the doctor, fearing that there […]
Buffalo, New York, sits at the east end of Lake Erie. The windward end. The prevailing winds sweep across the 9,910 square mile (25,670 sq. km.) expanse of the lake and, drawing up moisture as they travel, are more than willing to bestow their rain- (or snow-) laden bounty on the city. For some reason, […]
Chapters 12-14 of 1 Corinthians were intended to instruct believers who had fallen into error regarding the gifts. The sign-gifts were being magnified out of all proportion to their true importance to the assembly. The gifts for help and edification, being less spectacular, were in danger of being slighted. It seems as if those who […]
Many who revere the Bible are sometimes quite rigid with their second most important book…the bank book. Nothing is so practical a test of our love for Christ and His work as our attitude to money and personal possessions. What a glimpse we have of the inner work of the Holy Spirit in the life […]
Every time my mother had a baby, she sent me to stay with her parents, and since I was the eldest of five, it meant that at least four times I lived with my grandparents. Sometimes I wondered if my mother had forgotten me. Once she left me there for nearly twelve months. However, I […]