The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those who can explain about prayer. I mean those people who take time and pray. They have not time. It must be taken from […]
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 […]
Let me tell you about an event that turned the whole current of my future course from that day to this. I had heard that Captain W. and a few other Christians met on the first day of the week to break bread, like the disciples in Acts 20. One Lord’s day morning, I went […]
The Jewish Cultural Center was festooned with twelve colorful banners draped across its facade, depicting the ensigns of the sons of Jacob. It did not take me long to pull my car to the curb. Out in the field beside the building they had set up a make-believe kibbutz. A tent pretended to be the […]
For several days before Pesach (Passover), Jewish people throughout the world cleanse their homes of all leaven in anticipation of celebrating Sedar. No matter what the circumstances, wherever a Jewish family still has a roof over its head and a box of matzoth, there mother and children gather around the table where father directs the […]
There are delicate differences and suggestive shades of beauty in the various names given to the subject of our present study–thus, The Feast of Weeks, Chag Shavuot, stresses the lessons which we learn in our times of waiting (Ex. 34:22; Deut. 16:10, 16; 2 Chron. 8:13). “The Firstfruits of thy labors” reminds us that no […]
This Feast of Firstfruits was never kept, nor could it be kept, in the wilderness or in Egypt. It could not be held anywhere else than in the Promised Land for the very simple reason that this sheaf that was to be offered was to be the first of the harvest of the land to […]