A union embodying such an ideal (the ideal of Ephesians 5) is not to be entered into lightly or unadvisedly, but reverently, discreetly, soberly, and in the fear of God. Such is one statement in the marriage ceremony that I use as two much-in-love people stand in front of me on their wedding day. That […]
He is in the midst! No child of God needs to be told who that One is. He was foreshadowed by the tree of life in the midst of the garden (Gen. 2:9)–He who is the Life. Moses saw Him in the burning bush, and He called to him “out of the midst of the […]
The virgin’s Son was called Emmanuel. This name, “God with us,” in a sense summarizes the entire plan of redemption. It would seem that Adam and Eve walked with God before their rebellion (Gen. 3:8). Enoch, the seventh from Adam, walked with God for three centuries before his translation (Gen. 5:22). Noah walked with God […]
“When Israel saw that the king did not hearken to them, the people answered the king, What portion have we in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse” (1 Ki. 12:16). What a tragedy it is when our commitment to follow the Lord Jesus Christ is only as deep as the extent […]
I have been greatly delighted in contemplating the blessedness of being engrossed with the Lord Jesus. And one effect that the many questions, strifes about words, vain janglings and contentions which beset one on every side, have had is to drive me closer to Him. I desire to recall the scattered and bewildered minds of […]
“Jesus wept.” More wonderful words than these are nowhere to be found in Scripture. The verb translated “wept” is unique in its employment here. It is not found elsewhere. Literally it is, “Jesus shed tears.” These were tears of sympathy with the bereaved–Heaven’s gem’s sparkling on the cheeks of Emmanuel, God with us, revealing to […]
To many, the question of whether or not the Lord Jesus Christ was impeccable, that is, incapable of sinning, is a non-issue. “He did not sin,” they say, “Why quibble over whether or not he could have?” Others flatly state that Christ could have sinned. A recent runaway best-seller in Christian bookstores across North America […]
The following article is the substance of a letter written by brother Jim Upton, an elder at the assembly in metropolitan Minneapolis, MN. It was written as a solemn but loving appeal to a fellow workmate as Jim was taking his retirement from the company. Joe, We have worked together now for quite a few […]
In the Franco-Prussian War, there was then a great International Hospital in the town of Sedan, at the head of which was a distinguished doctor from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. He died there from confluent smallpox caught from a patient and was so much beloved that he was given a military funeral which was followed by […]