The life of King Manasseh is recorded in the Scriptures in two places: 2 Kings 21 and a more complete account in 2 Chronicles 33. Of all the kings of Judah, there was perhaps none more evil than Manasseh. Tradition tells us that He was most likely the one who gave the gruesome order to […]
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God made man in His own image and likeness, with the capacity for fellowship with the Creator. Sin disrupted that fellowship, marring the image of God. The eternal purpose of God involves the full revelation of Himself in grace through the Seed of the woman who is also the Seed of Abraham, and the Seed […]
All true service for Christ must spring from love to Christ. Martha and others, had been sorely bereaved, when Lazarus died. But their grief had turned into joy on seeing him raised from the dead. Their gratefulness to Christ caused them to love Him, and their love made them prepare the feast at which Martha […]
Not many years ago thousands of boys and girls in Germany sang a song of pagan origin which expressed their deepest devotion. This led multitudes of them to sacrifice their lives with a zeal and fanaticism hardly paralleled in modern times. Yet the song I refer to had nothing in it that spoke either of […]
Only an optimist would have called it a town. It was just a settlement, a few houses in the Canadian prairie. One house, a little larger than the others, had a Canada Post sign, the villagers’ means of reaching the world. But it was obvious that the world reached them, too. Whatever the little gathering […]
It’s a familiar quotation: “The family that prays together, stays together.” While there is no biblical direction along this line, we have both scriptural direction and example as to the importance of prayer in the assembly. In the Acts of the Apostles, we read, “These all continued with one accord in prayer” (1:14). At the […]
You may have heard someone say, “I don’t understand why God loves me.” Or you may have had this thought about yourself. How wonderful to understand why God loves men. With such knowledge, you may become a person that God loves in special and intimate ways. There are many reasons revealed in Scripture why God […]
William Taylor (1821-1902), was converted to Christ among the Methodists, and in 1842 he was introduced to evangelistic work in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1848, when gold was found on the Sutter property in El Dorado County, California, the report raced across the United States and around the world. In the fall of that year, as […]
Second Corinthians 8 and 9 contain a description of the gifts bestowed by believers for the help of their fellow saints. No less than seven terms are used, an indication of the value which God sets on the liberality of His saints. The real significance of each of these terms provides us with a wide […]